DBMS > Cassandra vs. InfluxDB vs. mSQL vs. Sadas Engine vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. InfluxDB vs. mSQL vs. Sadas Engine vs. STSdb

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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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.sadasengine.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Hughes Technologies

SADAS s.r.l.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2008

2013

1994

2006

2011

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

4.4, October 2021

8.0

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

horizontal partitioning

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

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

none

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

simple rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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Competitive advantages

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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