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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Axibase vs. CockroachDB vs. Rockset vs. RRDtool

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationCockroachDB 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.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.comaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.cockroachlabs.comrockset.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.rockset.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperAltibaseAxibase CorporationCockroach LabsRocksetTobias Oetiker
Initial release19992013201520191999
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231558523.1.1, May 20231.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaGoC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
hostedHP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyesdynamic schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesdynamic typingNumeric data only
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.nononono infoingestion from XML files supportedno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesnoyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92SQL-like query languageyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCHTTP RESTin-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsyesnonono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using RAFTyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno

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