DBMS > Cassandra vs. Heroic vs. Kdb vs. Kinetica vs. OpenQM

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Heroic vs. Kdb vs. Kinetica vs. OpenQM

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

High performance Time Series DBMS

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.55
Rank	#53	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#236	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

kx.com

www.kinetica.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

spotify.github.io/heroic

code.kx.com

docs.kinetica.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Spotify

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Kinetica

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2008

2014

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2012

1993

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

3.6, May 2018

7.1, August 2021

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free 32-bit version

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

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

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language (q)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Apple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metrics

Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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