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System

Version

MySQL 8.0.11 (2018-04-19, General Availability)

Drawbacks

community support only available

-Does not support a very large database size as efficiently
-Does not support ROLE, COMMIT, and Stored procedures in versions less than 5.0
-Transactions are not handled very efficiently
-It has got a few Stability Issues
-It suffers from Relatively Poor Performance Scaling
-Its functionality Heavily Dependant On Addons

Name

Apache Cassandra

MySQL

Advantages

Open Source Columnar NoSQL Database with excellent performance

-Open-Source
-Easy To Use
-Support is always readily available
-Inexpensive and still very much industry standard

Languages Supported

C C# C++ Java Node.js PHP Python Ruby

Perl, PHP, Python, ASP, C, C++, JAVA

Website

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

www.mysql.com

XML Support

yes

JSON Support

yes

Brief description

MongoDB is a free and open-source cross-platform document-oriented database program. Classified as a NoSQL database program, MongoDB uses JSON-like documents with schemata. MongoDB is developed by MongoDB Inc.

-open-source relational database management system
-fast, reliable, scalable, stable and true multi-user, multi-threaded sql database server
-works in client/server or embedded systems

Database Model

Primarily a NoSQL database

Relational Database, Supports ER Diagram Model and we can create and manipulate a model graphically

Technical Documentation

docs.datastax.com

dev.mysql.com/doc/

License

Commercial

MySQL is Open Source, licensed under the GNU GPL.

Cloud-based / SaaS

Virtual Machine Images available in AWS Azure and Google Cloud Marketplace. https://bitnami.com/stack/cassandra/cloud/aws

Integrated with Oracle Cloud Services for development and deployment

Implementation Language

C,C++

C and C++

Operating System Supported

Linux OS X Solaris Windows

AIX, BSDi, FreeBSD, HP-UX, eComStation, i5/OS, IRIX, Linux, macOS, Microsoft Windows, NetBSD, Novell NetWare, OpenBSD, OpenSolaris, OS/2 Warp, QNX, Oracle Solaris, Symbian, SunOS, SCO OpenServer, SCO UnixWare, Sanos and Tru64

Options for Integration / Access API

CQL (Cassandra Query Language is like SQL) Thrift Protocol

Both X DevAPI, Connectors & APIs available. Connector/C++ X DevAPI, Connector/J X DevAPI, Connector/NET X DevAPI, Connector/Node.js X DevAPI, Connector/Python X DevAPI, Shell JavaScript API, Shell Python API, PHP Connector, Connector/ODBC, ClusterJ, C API, MySQL for Excel, MySQL for Visual Studio

Consistency

Highly Consistent

Yes

Foreign Keys

Streaming Support

Yes

Data Storage Schema

Key Value Column Family NoSQL DB

Analytics Support

One of the core features is to build timeseries apps

Notable Users

Samsung Smartthings, ING Vysya , Safeway

Most of the startups and SME use this stable open source database.

Key Differentiator

Open Source NoSQL DB. The GoTo DB for Columnar NoSQL databases

Was the GoTo Open Source Database. new features have been slow after oracle acquisition.

Concurrency

Yes

Partitioning

Yes

Replication

Yes - Tunable Master-Slave Replication

Yes

Secondary Indexes

Yes

SchemaLess

Yes

SQL Query

No, but CQL is similar to SQL

Yes

meta-title

MySQL is an open source RDBMS. Free, fully managed, scalable with high availability and security built Database.

meta-desc

MySQL - Most popular free open source RDBMS database (under GPL License), mostly used as LAMP Stack. Its major features are Stored Procedures, Triggers, Cursor, Views and Transactions with save point.

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