Data model
Wide-Column databases
Rows partitioned by key with flexible columns, built for massive write throughput across many nodes. The leading options are Apache Cassandra, ScyllaDB and Google Cloud Bigtable.
14 active · ordered by fit for this category, then WhichDB Score
Masterless wide-column database built for always-on writes across data centers.
C++ rewrite of Cassandra with shard-per-core design; also speaks the DynamoDB API.
Google's managed wide-column store, the original Bigtable, with HBase API and SQL access.
Hadoop's Bigtable clone: strongly consistent wide-column tables on top of HDFS.
Sorted, distributed key-value store on HDFS with cell-level security labels.
Serverless Cassandra-as-a-service with vector search and a JSON Data API, now owned by IBM.
Serverless, CQL-compatible Cassandra service on AWS with no clusters to manage.
Microsoft's globally distributed, multi-API NoSQL and vector database with SLA-backed latency.
Apache-licensed distributed SQL that reuses the PostgreSQL query layer on a Raft-replicated storage engine.
Cheap, schemaless key-attribute store inside an Azure Storage account.
Oracle's sharded key-value and JSON store, available as Apache-licensed software or an OCI service.
Young C storage-engine library: transactional LSM with MVCC, column families and TTL.
Converged C/C++ NoSQL platform mixing key-value, documents, time-series, stream processing, graph and ML.
Tencent's financial-grade MySQL-compatible database family: distributed TDSQL and cloud-native TDSQL-C.
deprecated, discontinued & research · 5
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