DBMS > Cassandra vs. Heroic vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RocksDB vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Heroic vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RocksDB vs. Warp 10

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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

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

rocksdb.org

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Spotify

Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

SenX

Initial release

2008

2014

2007

2013

2015

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

14.1, August 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

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

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

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

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

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

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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

configurable

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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