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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Heroic vs. OceanBase vs. Quasardb

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NameCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Document store
Wide column store
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Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#147  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitecassandra.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicen.oceanbase.comquasar.ai
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestspotify.github.io/­heroicen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasedoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookSpotifyOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant Groupquasardb
Initial release2008201420102009
Current release4.1.3, July 20234.3.0, April 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommercial license availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)noyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modeno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Shardinghorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)Sharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyesMulti-source replication using PaxosSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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OceanBase Database is the world’s only native distributed database that has set new...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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High Availability : The five IDCs across three sites disaster recovery solution sets...
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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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OceanBase Database has helped over 400 customers across industries upgrade their...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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TPC-C No.1 Performance , achieved a result of 707.35 million tpmC in the TPC-C benchmark...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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Mulan PubL v2 license for open source community edition. Commercial license for enterprise...
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