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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. CockroachDB vs. EsgynDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	4.74
Rank	#67	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.esgyn.cn

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

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

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

Altibase

Cockroach Labs

Esgyn

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1999

2015

1998

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

24.1.0, May 2024

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

Java Stored Procedures

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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