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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Graphite vs. Memgraph vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TerminusDB

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Name

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

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Document store
RDF store

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Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

memgraph.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

graphite.readthedocs.io

memgraph.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Social network pages

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Chris Davis

Memgraph Ltd

SAP, Sybase

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2008

2006

2017

1987

2018

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

16.0

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

HTTP API
Sockets

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

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++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java and Transact-SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

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

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

with snapshot isolation

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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