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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Rockset vs. SiteWhere vs. Snowflake vs. XTDB

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NameCassandra  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5Relational DBMS
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Score98.83
Rank#12  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitecassandra.apache.orgrockset.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.snowflake.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestdocs.rockset.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmldocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookRocksetSiteWhereSnowflake Computing Inc.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release20082019201020142019
Current release4.1.3, July 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaClojure
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freepredefined schemeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesdynamic typingyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nono infoingestion from XML files supportednoyesno
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionall fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)Read-only SQL queries, including JOINsnoyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
HTTP RESTHTTP RESTCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Automatic shardingSharding infobased on HBaseyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possibleyesselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyesyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsnonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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CassandraRocksetSiteWhereSnowflakeXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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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