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System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. FatDB vs. HBase vs. JaguarDB vs. STSdb

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	6.31
Rank	#57	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#356	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Website

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

hbase.apache.org

www.jaguardb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.datastax.com

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

Developer

DataStax

FatCloud

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

DataJaguar, Inc.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2011

2012

2008

2015

2011

Current release

6.8, April 2020

2.3.4, January 2021

3.3 July 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual 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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

DataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantages

Supporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Typical application scenarios

Applications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Key customers

Capital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Annual subscription
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