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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. PouchDB vs. RavenDB vs. SWC-DB vs. TerarkDB

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NameCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeDocument storeWide column storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score101.89
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitecassandra.apache.orgpouchdb.comravendb.netgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestpouchdb.com/­guidesravendb.net/­docsbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookApache Software FoundationHibernating RhinosAlex KashirinByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20082012201020202016
Current release4.1.3, July 20237.1.1, June 20195.4, July 20220.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC#C++C++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonono
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.nononono
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)noSQL-like query language (RQL)SQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptyesnono
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Multi-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnoAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseno
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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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