DBMS > Altibase vs. Axibase vs. CockroachDB vs. Fauna vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Axibase vs. CockroachDB vs. Fauna vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

altibase.com

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.cockroachlabs.com

fauna.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.fauna.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Altibase

Axibase Corporation

Cockroach Labs

Fauna, Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

1999

2013

2015

2014

2021

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

15585

23.1.1, May 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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