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System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. Google BigQuery vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. STSdb

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Name

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.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

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Score	5.93
Rank	#56	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

cloud.google.com/bigquery

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.datastax.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

Developer

DataStax

Google

Microsoft

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2011

2010

2012

2011

Current release

6.8, April 2020

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

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

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

optimistic locking

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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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

Among the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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Licensing and pricing models

Annual subscription
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