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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. MarkLogic vs. MonetDB vs. ScyllaDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	5.92
Rank	#58	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#6	Search engines

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.marklogic.com

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

MarkLogic Corp.

MonetDB BV

ScyllaDB

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2008

2001

2004

2015

2018

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

11.0, December 2022

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

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)

yes

SQL92

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

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
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

in-memory tables

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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