DBMS > Apache Cassandra vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. JaguarDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Wide column store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores
	#16	Vector DBMS

Score	24.97
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	2.25
Rank	#112	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#323	Overall
	#44	Document stores
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.jaguardb.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

DataJaguar, Inc.

Microsoft

Rocket Software

Yandex

Initial release

2008

2015

2014

1985

2023

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

3.3 July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

optional

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

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

JDBC
ODBC

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

configurable

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

rights management via user accounts

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

Access Control Lists

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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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