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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. H2 vs. InfluxDB vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb

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NameCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Spatial DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitecassandra.apache.orgwww.h2database.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewprometheus.ioquasar.ai
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbprometheus.io/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookThomas Muellerquasardb
Initial release20082005201320152009
Current release4.1.3, July 20232.2.220, July 20232.7.6, April 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaGoGoC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and StringsNumeric data onlyyes infointeger and binary
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.nononono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesnonoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yesSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnonono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"noneSharding infoin enterprise version onlyShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoDepending on used storage enginenoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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