DB-EnginesExtremeDB: mitigate connectivity issues in a DBMSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Cassandra vs. GridGain vs. Newts vs. RDF4J vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. GridGain vs. Newts vs. RDF4J vs. SQream DB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteTime Series DBMS based on CassandraRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitecassandra.apache.orgwww.gridgain.comopennms.github.io/­newtsrdf4j.orgsqream.com
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikirdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookGridGain Systems, Inc.OpenNMS GroupSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SQream Technologies
Initial release20082007201420042017
Current release4.1.3, July 2023GridGain 8.5.12022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Astra DB: Multi-cloud DBaaS built on Apache Cassandra.
Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .NetJavaJavaC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP REST
Java API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaJava
PHP
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyesuser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesyes (cache interceptors and events)noyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnono
More information provided by the system vendor
CassandraGridGainNewtsRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameSQream DB
Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
» more
Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
» more
Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
» more
Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
» more
Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
» more
News

How to Build a Crystal Image Search App with Vector Search
25 April 2024

Knowledge Graphs for RAG without a GraphDB
18 April 2024

How Winweb Built its AI Assistant with DataStax Astra DB and LangChain
17 April 2024

Vercel + Astra DB: Get Data into Your GenAI Apps Fast
16 April 2024

Simplifying Agent Development with Astra DB Connector for Vertex AI Search
11 April 2024

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services
3rd partiesCassandra Forward event: Want to level up your Cassandra game? Watch now replays of the March 2023 sessions.
» more

CData: Connect to Big Data & NoSQL through standard Drivers.
» more

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
CassandraGridGainNewtsRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameSQream DB
DB-Engines blog posts

Cassandra keeps climbing the ranks of the DB-Engines Ranking
3 May 2016, Matthias Gelbmann

Oracle is the DBMS of the Year
5 January 2016, Paul Andlinger, Matthias Gelbmann

Winners, losers and an attractive newcomer in Novembers DB-Engines ranking
2 November 2015, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

What Is Cassandra? Working, Features, and Uses - Spiceworks Inc
17 August 2023, Spiceworks News and Insights

Here's What to Know About Apache Cassandra 5.0
15 April 2024, hackernoon.com

How Uber Optimized Cassandra Operations At Scale
20 July 2023, Uber

Microsoft extends life support for aging Apache Cassandra 3.11 database
10 October 2023, The Register

Cassandra is the “best f*cking database for gen AI,” says DataStax CEO
13 December 2023, VentureBeat

provided by Google News

GridGain Announces Call for Speakers for Virtual Apache Ignite Summit 2024
8 February 2024, PR Newswire

GridGain's 2023 Growth Positions Company for Strong 2024
25 January 2024, Datanami

GridGain Named in the 2023 Gartner® Market Guide for Event Stream Processing
22 August 2023, GlobeNewswire

GridGain to Sponsor, Exhibit at Kafka Summit 2024 in London
12 March 2024, PR Newswire

GridGain Showcases Power of Apache Ignite at Community Over Code Conference
5 October 2023, Datanami

provided by Google News

Farewell, Froggy: The Age of Ribbit Is Nearing an End
25 May 2013, Mother Jones

provided by Google News

GraphDB Goes Open Source
27 January 2020, iProgrammer

Ontotext's GraphDB 8.10 Makes Knowledge Graph Experience Faster and Richer
13 June 2019, Markets Insider

provided by Google News

SQream Announces Strategic Integration for Powerful Big Data Analytics with Dataiku
9 February 2024, insideBIGDATA

I SQream, you SQream, we all SQream for … data analytics?
5 October 2023, FierceWireless

SQream Joins Samsung Cloud Platform Ecosystem
26 July 2023, Datanami

GPU data warehouse startup SQream lands $39.4M funding round
24 June 2020, SiliconANGLE News

SQream Technologies raises $39.4 million for GPU-accelerated databases
24 June 2020, VentureBeat

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

SingleStore logo

Database for your real-time AI and Analytics Apps.
Try it today.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Present your product here