DBMS > Cassandra vs. GeoSpock vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Riak KV

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. GeoSpock vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Riak KV

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Trend Chart

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	3.05
Rank	#97	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#16	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

cassandra.apache.org

geospock.com

manticoresearch.com

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

GeoSpock

Manticore Software

Oracle

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2008

2017

2011

2009

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

2.0, September 2019

6.0, February 2023

24.1, May 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Fixed schema

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

optional

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

temporal, categorical

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

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

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

JDBC

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Automatic sharding

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

off heap cache

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users can be defined per table

Access rights for users and roles

yes, using Riak Security

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