DBMS > Cassandra vs. EsgynDB vs. jBASE vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. EsgynDB vs. jBASE vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

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

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Relational DBMS

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Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.esgyn.cn

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Esgyn

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2008

2015

1991

2019

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

5.7

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

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

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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