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System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. EXASOL vs. FeatureBase vs. GeoMesa

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	1.66
Rank	#138	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#296	Overall
	#134	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.featurebase.com

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Exasol

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

CCRi and others

Initial release

2008

2000

2017

2014

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

2022, May 2022

5.0.1, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

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.

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

SQL queries

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Lua
Python
R

Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

depending on storage layer

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

depending on storage layer

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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Market metrics

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