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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. OrigoDB vs. RDFox

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Relational DBMS

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Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Website

cassandra.apache.org

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

origodb.com

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

origodb.com/docs

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Kyligence, Inc.

Robert Friberg et al

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2008

2016

2009

under the name LiveDB

2017

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

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)

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication

replication via a shared file system

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

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

Roles, resources, and access types

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