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System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. Ehcache vs. Elasticsearch vs. MaxDB vs. Newts

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	4.79
Rank	#66	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	128.79
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.ehcache.org

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

maxdb.sap.com

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.ehcache.org/documentation

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Elastic

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

OpenNMS Group

Initial release

2008

2009

2010

1984

2014

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

3.10.0, March 2022

8.6, January 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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++

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

schema-free

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

JCache

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP REST
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Memcached and Redis integration

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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