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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. InfinityDB vs. NCache vs. TerminusDB vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

boilerbay.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

terminusdb.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Boiler Bay Inc.

Alachisoft

DataChemist Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2008

2002

2005

2018

2014

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

4.0

5.3.3, April 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Astra DB: Multi-cloud DBaaS built on Apache Cassandra.

Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

Prolog, Rust

C++, Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java

.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

yes

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

Journaling Streams

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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