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System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. Manticore Search vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TinkerGraph

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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.

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1.90
Rank	#127	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#345	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

manticoresearch.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Manticore Software

Oracle

Initial release

2008

2017

2007

2009

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

6.0, February 2023

14.1, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

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

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

TinkerPop 3

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

.Net
C++
Java

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Live Events

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

Sharding

none

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

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

configurable

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

optionally

optional

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

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