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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Hazelcast vs. Ignite vs. Memcached vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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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

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Search engine

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Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#350	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Hazelcast

Apache Software Foundation

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Transwarp

Initial release

2008

2015

2003

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

Apache Ignite 2.6

1.6.25, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java, .Net

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

Proprietary protocol

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++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

Triggers

yes

Events

yes (cache interceptors and events)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

Replicated Map

yes (replicated cache)

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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