DBMS > Cassandra vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TDengine vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TDengine vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	59.76
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

hive.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.tdengine.com

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2008

2012

2010

2019

2017

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux

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.

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 DML and DDL statements

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes

Role-based access control

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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