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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. GeoSpock vs. GridGain vs. H2 vs. Tibero

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NameCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.78
Rank#140  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websitecassandra.apache.orggeospock.comwww.gridgain.comwww.h2database.comus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tibero
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmltechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookGeoSpockGridGain Systems, Inc.Thomas MuellerTmaxSoft
Initial release2008200720052003
Current release4.1.3, July 20232.0, September 2019GridGain 8.5.12.2.220, July 20236, April 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, JavascriptJava, C++, .NetJavaC and Assembler
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnoyes
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutiontemporal, categoricalyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
JDBCHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaC
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined FunctionsPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)
Triggersyesnoyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Automatic shardingShardingnonehorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes (replicated cache)With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.nonoyesyesno infoplanned for next version
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users can be defined per tableSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)
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CassandraGeoSpockGridGainH2Tibero
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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