DBMS > Apache Cassandra vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Lovefield vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Lovefield vs. SwayDB

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A multi-model DBMS and application server

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#306	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

google.github.io/lovefield

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.intersystems.com

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

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

InterSystems

Google

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2008

1997

2014

2018

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

2018.1.4, May 2020

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Scala

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

schema-free

depending on used data model

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

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)

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Java

JavaScript

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication

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

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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Specific characteristics

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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

Apache Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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