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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Dolt vs. NSDb vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

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

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

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store

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Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

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

nsdb.io

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.dolthub.com

nsdb.io/Architecture

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

DoltHub Inc

Weaviate B.V.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2008

2018

2017

2019

2009

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL-like query language

GraphQL is used as query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

CLI Client
HTTP REST

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

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

Java
Scala

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

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.

yes

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

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

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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