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System Properties Comparison Cassandra vs. Sphinx vs. Yandex Database (YDB)

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Wide column store

Search engine

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Rank	#11	Overall
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Score	7.23
Rank	#61	Overall
	#8	Search engines

Score	0.53
Rank	#235	Overall
	#36	Document stores
	#113	Relational DBMS

Website

cassandra.apache.org

sphinxsearch.com

cloud.yandex.com/en/services/ydb
github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

sphinxsearch.com/docs

cloud.yandex.com/en/docs/ydb
ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2008

2001

2019

Current release

4.0.4, May 2022

3.4.1, July 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

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

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

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

Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

none

Active-passive shard replication

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

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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 defined for Yandex Cloud users

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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