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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. InfluxDB vs. Interbase vs. Lovefield vs. Realm

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

google.github.io/lovefield

realm.io

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

realm.io/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Embarcadero

Google

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

2008

2013

1984

2014

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

InterBase 2020, December 2019

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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)

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

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

JavaScript

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Interbase Change Views

none

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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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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Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing models

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