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System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InfinityDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Prometheus

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NameApache Cassandra  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  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 hardwareA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Spatial DBMS
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Score98.94
Rank#11  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score1.59
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score7.56
Rank#49  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Websitecassandra.apache.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
boilerbay.comopentsdb.netprometheus.io
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocs.heavy.aiboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookHEAVY.AI, Inc.Boiler Bay Inc.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20082016200220112015
Current release5.0-rc1, July 20245.10, January 20224.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++ and CUDAJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsNumeric data only
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.nonononono infoImport of XML data possible
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionnono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yesnonono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
HTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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
JavaErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infoRound robinnoneSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleMulti-source replicationnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoby Federation
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency infobased on HBasenone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonono
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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 metricsApache Cassandra 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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