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Name

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	101.89
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	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

atoti.io

cassandra.apache.org

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

kairosdb.github.io

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

ActiveViam

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2008

2013

1999

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

1.2.2, November 2018

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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