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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Kinetica vs. Realm vs. TerarkDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.kinetica.com

realm.io

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.kinetica.com

realm.io/docs

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Kinetica

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

ByteDance, originally Terark

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2008

2012

2014

2016

1998

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

7.1, August 2021

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C++
Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users and roles on table level

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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