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System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. DataFS vs. HEAVY.AI vs. mSQL

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Wide column store

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Graph DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

newdatabase.com

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

docs.heavy.ai

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Mobiland AG

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2008

2018

2016

1994

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

1.1.263, October 2022

5.10, January 2022

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Astra DB: Multi-cloud DBaaS built on Apache Cassandra.

Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

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

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

Round robin

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Windows-Profile

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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