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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

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Score	108.55
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	4.53
Rank	#88	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Website

cassandra.apache.org

orientdb.org

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Initial release

2008

2010

Current release

4.1.2, May 2023

3.2.17, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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

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

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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