DBMS > Cassandra vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak TS vs. UniData,UniVerse

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Postgres-XL vs. Riak TS vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

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

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

www.postgres-xl.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

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

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Microsoft

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Rocket Software

Initial release

2008

2016

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2015

1985

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

10 R1, October 2018

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

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

distributed, parallel query execution

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
PHP

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

user defined functions

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

selectable replication factor

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

MVCC

ACID

configurable

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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