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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Hazelcast vs. HBase vs. PostGIS vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Relational DBMS

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Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	5.46
Rank	#61	Overall
	#7	Key-value stores

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#307	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

hbase.apache.org/book.html

postgis.net/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Hazelcast

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2008

2005

2015

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

Coprocessors in Java

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

based on PostgreSQL

selectable replication factor

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

Role-based access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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