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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. KairosDB vs. Manticore Search vs. OpenTSDB

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NameCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Time Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitecassandra.apache.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbmanticoresearch.comopentsdb.net
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestkairosdb.github.iomanual.manticoresearch.comopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookManticore Softwarecurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2008201320172011
Current release4.1.3, July 20231.2.2, November 20186.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleannumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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.nonoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)noSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectsimple password-based access controlnono
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Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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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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