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System Properties Comparison Datastax Enterprise vs. GridDB vs. Quasardb vs. Riak KV vs. Stardog

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NameDatastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDataStax 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.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score5.93
Rank#56  Overall
#4  Wide column stores
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitewww.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprisegriddb.netquasar.aiwww.stardog.com
Technical documentationdocs.datastax.comdocs.griddb.netdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.stardog.com
DeveloperDataStaxToshiba CorporationquasardbOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesStardog-Union
Initial release20112013200920092010
Current release6.8, April 20205.1, August 20223.14.1, January 20243.2.0, December 20227.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++ErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
LinuxBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyes infointeger and binarynoyes
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.nonononono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsrestrictedyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQLSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)SQL-like query languagenoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin infowith DSE Graph
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoErlanguser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
Triggersyesyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes infovia event handlers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"ShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infono "single point of failure"none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computingSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factorMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobswith Hadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency infoconsistency level can be individually decided with each write operation
Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between data sets can be storedyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID at container levelACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users and roles
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Datastax EnterpriseGridDBQuasardbRiak KVStardog
Specific characteristicsDataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantagesSupporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Typical application scenariosApplications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersCapital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsAmong the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsAnnual subscription
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Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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