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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. HEAVY.AI vs. ITTIA vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SiriDB

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NameCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonITTIA  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareEdge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream ProcessingGlobally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database serviceOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#273  Overall
#24  Time Series DBMS
Score29.04
Rank#27  Overall
#4  Document stores
#2  Graph DBMS
#3  Key-value stores
#3  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitecassandra.apache.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.ittia.comazure.microsoft.com/­services/­cosmos-dbsiridb.com
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocs.heavy.ailearn.microsoft.com/­azure/­cosmos-dbdocs.siridb.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookHEAVY.AI, Inc.ITTIA L.L.C.MicrosoftCesbit
Initial release20082016200720142017
Current release4.1.3, July 20235.10, January 20228.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++ and CUDAC and C++C
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesFixed schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesFloat/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Intervalyes infoJSON typesyes infoNumeric data
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
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionnoyesyes infoAll properties auto-indexed by defaultyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yesyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesJavaScriptno
TriggersyesnonoJavaScriptno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infoRound robinSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleMulti-source replicationyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonowith Hadoop integration infoIntegration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyBounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoyesMulti-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partitionno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardDatabase file passwordsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelsimple rights management via user accounts
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CassandraHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022ITTIAMicrosoft Azure Cosmos DB infoformer name was Azure DocumentDBSiriDB
Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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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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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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