DBMS > Cassandra vs. DolphinDB vs. GBase vs. Hypertable vs. Ignite

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. DolphinDB vs. GBase vs. Hypertable vs. Ignite

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Primary database model

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	4.13
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

DolphinDB, Inc

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Hypertable Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2008

2018

2004

2009

2015

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

v2.00.4, January 2022

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

0.9.8.11, March 2016

Apache Ignite 2.6

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free community version available

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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

Implementation language

Java

C++

C, Java, Python

C++

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

Standard with numerous extensions

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Thrift

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

selectable replication factor on file system level

yes (replicated cache)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

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

yes

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

Administrators, Users, Groups

yes

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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