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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Faircom EDGE vs. IBM Cloudant vs. RocksDB vs. TerarkDB

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NameCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeKey-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitecassandra.apache.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantrocksdb.orggithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikibytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookFairCom CorporationIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Facebook, Inc.ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20081979201020132016
Current release4.1.3, July 2023V3, October 20209.2.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaANSI C, C++ErlangC++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesnonono
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yes infoANSI SQL queriesnonono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIC++ API
Java API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"File partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infowhen using SQLnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Access rights for users can be defined per databasenono
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Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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