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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. KeyDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Postgres-XL

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NameCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Time Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitecassandra.apache.orggithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
manticoresearch.comwww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocs.keydb.devmanual.manticoresearch.comwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.Manticore Software
Initial release2008201920172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release4.1.3, July 20236.0, February 202310 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++C
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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 XMLyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)noSQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoBinary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuauser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersyesnonoyes
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 supportedhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Synchronous replication based on Galera library
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
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes 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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectsimple password-based access control and ACLnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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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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