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System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. GBase vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Graph 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	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.gbase.cn

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

origodb.com/docs

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2008

2004

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

2017

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

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)

Standard with numerous extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

none

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

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Write ahead log

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

yes

Role based authorization

Role-based access control

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