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System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

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

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	98.94
Rank	#11	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	3.07
Rank	#86	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#11	Key-value stores
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	2.06
Rank	#118	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#112	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

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

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

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

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Oracle

Percona

Rocket Software

Initial release

2008

2011

2008

1985

Current release

5.0-rc1, July 2024

24.1, May 2024

8.0.36-28, 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

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)

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

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.

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users and roles

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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Specific characteristics

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Market metrics

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