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Name	Datastax Enterprise  Xexclude from comparison	MongoDB  Xexclude from comparison
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.	One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database model	Wide column store	Document store
Secondary database models	Document store Graph DBMS Spatial DBMS Search engine	Spatial DBMS Search engine integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only. Time Series DBMS Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 8.36 Rank #56   Overall #4   Wide column stores	Score 472.98 Rank #5   Overall #1   Document stores
Website	www.datastax.com/­products/­datastax-enterprise	www.mongodb.com
Technical documentation	docs.datastax.com	docs.mongodb.com/­manual
Developer	DataStax	MongoDB, Inc
Initial release	2011	2009
Current release	6.8, April 2020	5.0.9, May 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial	Open Source MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)
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Implementation language	Java	C++
Server operating systems	Linux OS X	Linux OS X Solaris Windows
Data scheme	schema-free	schema-free Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial
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.	no
Secondary indexes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL	Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Connector for BI
APIs and other access methods	Proprietary protocol CQL (Cassandra Query Language) TinkerPop Gremlin with DSE Graph	proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languages	C C# C++ Java JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python Ruby	Actionscript unofficial driver C C# C++ Clojure unofficial driver ColdFusion unofficial driver D unofficial driver Dart unofficial driver Delphi unofficial driver Erlang Go Groovy unofficial driver Haskell Java JavaScript Lisp unofficial driver Lua unofficial driver MatLab unofficial driver Perl PHP PowerShell unofficial driver Prolog unofficial driver Python R unofficial driver Ruby Rust Scala Smalltalk unofficial driver Swift
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	JavaScript
Triggers	yes	yes in MongoDB Atlas only
Partitioning methods Methods for storing different data on different nodes	Sharding no "single point of failure"	Sharding Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing	Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters Source-replica replication
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	yes	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 can be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	no typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations	Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	yes	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes optional, enabled by default
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	yes	yes In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2
User concepts Access control	Access rights for users can be defined per object	Access rights for users and roles
More information provided by the system vendor
	Datastax Enterprise	MongoDB
Specific characteristics	DataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to... » more	MongoDB’s application data platform provides developers a unified interface to power... » more
Competitive advantages	Supporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache... » more	The MongoDB platform can be used by developers building transactional, operational,... » more
Typical application scenarios	Applications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able... » more	Internet of Things and Time Series (Bosch, Jaguar Land Rover) Mobile (The Weather... » more
Key customers	Capital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and... » more	ADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,... » more
Market metrics	Among the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top... » more	200+ million downloads, over 1.5M Atlas database clusters under management handling... » more
Licensing and pricing models	Annual subscription » more	MongoDB database server: Server-Side Public License (SSPL) . Commercial licenses... » more
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