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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Graphite vs. IRONdb vs. Rockset

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	4.57
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

cassandra.apache.org

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

rockset.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

graphite.readthedocs.io

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Chris Davis

Circonus LLC.

Rockset

Initial release

2008

2006

2017

2019

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

yes

text, numeric, histograms

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

HTTP API
Sockets

HTTP API

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes

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

none

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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