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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Manticore Search vs. OpenMLDB vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Wide column store

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Relational DBMS

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Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.10
Rank	#359	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

manual.manticoresearch.com

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Manticore Software

4 Paradigm Inc.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2008

2017

2020

2013

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

6.0, February 2023

2024-2 February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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 index from XML

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

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

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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