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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB info

Optimized for write access

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Primary database model

Wide column store

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Website

cassandra.apache.org

hbase.apache.org

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

hbase.apache.org

Developer

Apache Software Foundation info

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Apache Software Foundation info

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Initial release

2008

Current release

3.11.4, February 2019

1.4.8, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

Apache version 2

Open Source info

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) info

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows info

using Cygwin

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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 info

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

SQL

Support of SQL

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

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol info

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript info

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor info

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts info

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts info

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access Control Lists (ACL) info

Implementation based on Hadoop and ZooKeeper

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Apple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metrics

Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing models

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