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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. IRONdb vs. ObjectBox vs. Qdrant vs. Yaacomo

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NameCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Time Series DBMS
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Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitecassandra.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/objectbox.iogithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
yaacomo.com
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.objectbox.ioqdrant.tech/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookCirconus LLC.ObjectBox LimitedQdrantQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20082017201720212009
Current release4.1.3, July 2023V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C and C++Rust
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionnoyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nonoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
HTTP APIProprietary native APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luano
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Automatic, metric affinity per nodenoneShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareonline/offline synchronization between client and serverCollection-level replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnoyesKey-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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CassandraIRONdbObjectBoxQdrantYaacomo
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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