DBMS > Cassandra vs. HBase vs. MonetDB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP Adaptive Server

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. HBase vs. MonetDB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP Adaptive Server

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

hbase.apache.org

www.monetdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

MonetDB BV

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SAP, Sybase

Initial release

2008

2004

2009

1987

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.2.0, December 2022

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Astra DB: Multi-cloud DBaaS built on Apache Cassandra.

Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes, in SQL, C, R

Erlang

Java and Transact-SQL

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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