DBMS > Cassandra vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SiriDB vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SiriDB vs. SQream DB

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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

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Open Source Time Series DBMS

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

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

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

siridb.com

sqream.com

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.siridb.com

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Oracle

SAP, Sybase

Cesbit

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2008

2011

1987

2017

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

23.3, December 2023

16.0

2022.1.6, December 2022

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)

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

Numeric data

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

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
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java and Transact-SQL

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal and vertical partitioning

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

yes

none

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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