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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Kinetica vs. ScyllaDB

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB info

Optimized for write access

GPU-accelerated database for real-time analysis of large and streaming datasets

Cassandra-compatible wide column store

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	123.22
Rank	#10	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.53
Rank	#199	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Score	1.96
Rank	#108	Overall
	#8	Wide column stores

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.kinetica.com

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.kinetica.com/docs

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation info

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Kinetica

ScyllaDB

Initial release

2008

2012

2015

Current release

3.11.4, February 2019

6.0

Scylla Open Source 3.0.10, August 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source info

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Cloud-based only info

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

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support info

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 info

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol info

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

RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol info

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

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript info

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

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

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor info

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Master-slave replication

selectable replication factor info

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts info

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency info

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts info

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities info

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 tables

User concepts info

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users and roles on table level

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Specific characteristics

Apache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Scylla is a highly-available, highly-scalable, highly-performant NoSQL database....
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Competitive advantages

No single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

Internet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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AdTech (AdGear, AppNexus, Dstillery, Numberly, Sizmek) Cybersecurity (Veramine) Entertainment...
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Key customers

Apple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Comcast, Grab, Yahoo! Japan, IMVU, Adgear, Appnexus, Zenly, Natura, Snapfish, mParticle,...
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Market metrics

Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache licenseÂ Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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Scylla Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) Scylla Enterprise - subscription-based...
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