DBMS > Cassandra vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RRDtool vs. searchxml vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. RRDtool vs. searchxml vs. Trino

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Trend Chart

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

www.searchxml.net/category/products

trino.io

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Percona

Tobias Oetiker

informationpartners gmbh

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2008

2015

1999

2015

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

4.1.3, July 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

1.8.0, 2022

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

C++

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

HP-UX
Linux

Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

proprietary protocol using JSON

in-process shared library
Pipes

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

on the application server

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

depending on connected data-source

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

multiple readers, single writer

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users and roles

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

SQL standard access control

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