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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

RDBMS for high security requirements

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#359	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

relex.ru

4 Paradigm Inc.

Initial release

2008

2017

1990

2020

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

Nov 20, November 2021

2024-2 February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

C and C++

C++, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Strong typed schema

yes

Fixed schema

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

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Go
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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