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DBMS > Cassandra vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Solr vs. ToroDB vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Solr vs. ToroDB vs. Warp 10

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NameCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQLTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeSearch engineDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Spatial DBMS
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Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.14
Rank#344  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Websitecassandra.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantsolr.apache.orggithub.com/­torodb/­serverwww.warp10.io
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlwww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_started
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Apache Software Foundation8KdataSenX
Initial release20082010200620162015
Current release4.1.3, July 20239.6.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoAGPL-V3Open Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)All OS with a Java 7 VMLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_idyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)noSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptJava pluginsyes infoWarpScript
Triggersyesyesyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsno infoatomic operations within a document possibleoptimistic lockingnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyesAccess rights for users and rolesMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations
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Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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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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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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