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System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. MarkLogic vs. Sadas Engine vs. StarRocks vs. XTDB

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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

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	4.15
Rank	#70	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#8	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Score	0.95
Rank	#193	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.progress.com/marklogic

www.sadasengine.com

www.starrocks.io

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.progress.com/marklogic/documentation

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

MarkLogic Corp.

SADAS s.r.l.

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2008

2001

2006

2020

2019

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

11.0, December 2022

8.0

3.3, June 2024

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

SQL92

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

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
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
MySQL protocol

HTTP REST
JDBC

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Java

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

none

yes, each node contains all data

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

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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