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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. H2GIS vs. Rockset vs. TDengine vs. TinkerGraph

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NameCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessSpatial extension of H2A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBTime Series DBMS and big data platformA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelWide column storeSpatial DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitecassandra.apache.orgwww.h2gis.orgrockset.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
tinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.rockset.comdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookCNRSRocksetTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20082013201920192009
Current release4.1.3, July 20233.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++CJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingyesyes
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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supportednono
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesall fields are automatically indexednono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
HTTP RESTJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2nonono
Triggersyesyesnoyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"noneAutomatic shardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes infobased on H2yesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectyes infobased on H2Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleyesno
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Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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