DBMS > Cassandra vs. GigaSpaces vs. Manticore Search vs. Newts vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. GigaSpaces vs. Manticore Search vs. Newts vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

RDF store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.gigaspaces.com

manticoresearch.com

opennms.github.io/newts

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

manual.manticoresearch.com

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Gigaspaces Technologies

Manticore Software

OpenNMS Group

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2008

2000

2017

2014

2004

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

15.5, September 2020

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

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

HTTP REST
Java API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

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

Java

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

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

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

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 storage is supported as well

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

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