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Name

Description

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

Optimized for write access

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. With MariaDB ColumnStore a column-oriented storage engine is available too.

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS info

with OQGraph storage engine

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Score	123.22
Rank	#10	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	86.77
Rank	#13	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

mariadb.com info

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org info

Site of MariaDB Foundation

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

Developer

Apache Software Foundation info

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) info

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Initial release

2008

2009

Current release

3.11.4, February 2019

10.4.8, September 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source info

Apache version 2

Open Source info

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Cloud-based only info

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows info

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted info

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol info

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

Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts info

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods info

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Horizontal partitioning, sharding with Spider storage engine or Galera cluster info

Partitioning by range, list, hash, key

Replication methods info

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor info

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Master-master replication info

using MariaDB Galera Cluster
Master-slave replication

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

Foreign keys info

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts info

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency info

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability info

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

In-memory capabilities info

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts info

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

Apache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Open source database from the creators of MySQL, enhanced with enterprise tools and...
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Competitive advantages

No single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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High availability, scalability, performance beyond MySQL and other databases.
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Typical application scenarios

Internet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Web, SaaS and Cloud operational/transactional applications that require high availability,...
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Key customers

Apple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Booking.com, Wikipedia, Google, Canal+, ClubMed, Deutsche Telekom, La Poste, Virgin...
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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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