DBMS > Cassandra vs. Hazelcast vs. InfluxDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Hazelcast vs. InfluxDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Warp 10

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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

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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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	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

hazelcast.com

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

manticoresearch.com

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

manual.manticoresearch.com

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Hazelcast

Manticore Software

SenX

Initial release

2008

2013

2017

2015

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

5.3.6, November 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

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

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

user defined functions

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

Replicated Map

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

based on HBase

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Role-based access control

simple rights management via user accounts

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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