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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Manticore Search vs. Newts vs. RDF4J

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NameCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Time Series DBMS based on CassandraRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engineTime Series DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Time Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score103.86
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score4.39
Rank#81  Overall
#13  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#317  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#231  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitecassandra.apache.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irismanticoresearch.comopennms.github.io/­newtsrdf4j.org
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsmanual.manticoresearch.comgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikirdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookInterSystemsManticore SoftwareOpenNMS GroupSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release20082018201720142004
Current release4.1.3, July 20232023.3, June 20236.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelFixed schemaschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes
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.noyesCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)yesSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
HTTP REST
Java API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaJava
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleSource-replica replicationSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectyesnonono
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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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