DBMS > Cassandra vs. MaxDB vs. Riak TS vs. TimesTen vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. MaxDB vs. Riak TS vs. TimesTen vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	2.32
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

maxdb.sap.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2008

1984

2015

1998

2009

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Erlang

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

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