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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Oracle Coherence vs. OrigoDB vs. Riak TS

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NameCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessOracles in-memory data grid solutionA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score103.86
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score2.02
Rank#131  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#378  Overall
#51  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#308  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Websitecassandra.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherenceorigodb.com
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherenceorigodb.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookOracleRobert Friberg et alOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release200820072009 infounder the name LiveDB2015
Current release4.1.3, July 202314.1, August 20233.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC#Erlang
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionnoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)nonoyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
.NetC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesErlang
Triggersyesyes infoLive Eventsyes infoDomain Eventsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Shardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonodepending on modelno infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsconfigurableACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infooptionallyyes infoWrite ahead logyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationRole based authorizationno
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CassandraOracle CoherenceOrigoDBRiak TS
Specific characteristicsApache Cassandra is the leading NoSQL, distributed database management system, well...
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Competitive advantagesNo single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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Typical application scenariosInternet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customersApple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metricsCassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache license  Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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