DBMS > Cassandra vs. Couchbase vs. Newts vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Couchbase vs. Newts vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB info

Optimized for write access

JSON-based document store derived from CouchDB with a Memcached-compatible interface

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store info

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol

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Score	120.71
Rank	#10	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	31.49
Rank	#23	Overall
	#3	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#219	Overall
	#10	RDF stores

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.couchbase.com

opennms.github.io/newts

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.couchbase.com

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.rdf4j.org

Developer

Apache Software Foundation info

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Couchbase, Inc.

OpenNMS Group

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2008

2011

2014

2004

Current release

3.11.5, October 2019

Server: 6.0, October 2018; Mobile: 2.5, May 2019; Couchbase Autonomous Operator: 1.2, May 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

Apache version 2

Open Source info

Apache version 2; Commercial licenses also available

Open Source info

Apache 2.0

Open Source info

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Boolean, Number

yes

XML support info

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

restricted info

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

Declarative query language (N1QL) that extends ANSI SQL to JSON. First commercial implementation of SQL++.

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol info

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs

HTTP REST
Java API

Java API
RIO info

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL info

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript info

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
Clojure
ColdFusion
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript info

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Tcl

Java

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor info

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Master-master replication info

including cross data center replication
Master-slave replication

selectable replication factor info

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

selectable on a per-operation basis

Eventual Consistency info

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency info

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts info

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Single-document ACID transactions

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Ephemeral buckets

User concepts info

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication

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Specific characteristics

Apache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantages

No single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Couchbase was architected with several differentiated capabilities: Shared-nothing,...
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Typical application scenarios

Internet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Customer 360 for user profile, session store and data aggregation (Comcast, Equifax,...
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Key customers

Apple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Amadeus, AT&T, BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), Carrefour, Cisco, Comcast, Disney,...
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Market metrics

Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Named a leader in the Forrester Wave™: Big Data NoSQL, Q1 2019 Over 10M downloads...
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache licenseÂ Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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