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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Dolt vs. EsgynDB vs. NSDb

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	118.01
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.62
Rank	#218	Overall
	#106	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#288	Overall
	#134	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#354	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

www.esgyn.cn

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.dolthub.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

DoltHub Inc

Esgyn

Initial release

2008

2018

2015

2017

Current release

4.0.4, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

CLI Client
HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

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

Eventual 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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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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Licensing and pricing models

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