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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Interbase vs. RavenDB vs. Speedb

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Primary database model

Wide column store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#323	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.61
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#315	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

ravendb.net

www.speedb.io

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

IBM

Embarcadero

Hibernating Rhinos

Speedb

Initial release

2008

2017

1984

2010

2020

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

2.0

InterBase 2020, December 2019

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

export as XML data possible

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)

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

yes

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Active-active shard replication

Interbase Change Views

Multi-source replication

yes

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

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

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

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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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

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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