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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Immudb vs. Kinetica vs. Memcached vs. Riak TS

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NameCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessAn open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Relational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.31
Rank#295  Overall
#42  Key-value stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitecassandra.apache.orggithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
www.kinetica.comwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocs.immudb.iodocs.kinetica.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookCodenotaryKineticaDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20082020201220032015
Current release4.1.3, July 20231.2.3, April 20227.1, August 20211.6.27, May 20243.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC, C++CErlang
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
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.nononono
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyesnorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)SQL-like syntaxSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocolHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsnoErlang
Triggersyesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleSource-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolno
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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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