DBMS > Cassandra vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SingleStore vs. Speedb

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SingleStore vs. Speedb

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Cloud-based data warehousing service

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

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

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	1.30
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

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

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.singlestore.com

www.speedb.io

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

IBM

Percona

SingleStore Inc.

Speedb

Initial release

2008

2014

2015

2013

2020

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Import/export of 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

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

proprietary protocol using JSON

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

hash partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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Specific characteristics

Apache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Speedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantages

No single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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SingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Speedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Typical application scenarios

Internet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Driving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customers

Apple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metrics

Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Customers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache licenseÂ Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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F ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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