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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. CockroachDB vs. FatDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. SurrealDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSCockroachDB 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 .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.84
Rank#204  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score4.24
Rank#68  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score1.51
Rank#141  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score1.01
Rank#181  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Websitealtibase.comwww.cockroachlabs.comopentsdb.netsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualswww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseCockroach LabsFatCloudcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release19992015201220112022
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 202324.1.0, May 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++GoC#JavaRust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
macOS
Windows
WindowsLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesdynamic schemaschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServernoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
HTTP API
Telnet API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C#Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnoyes infovia applicationsno
Triggersyesnoyes infovia applicationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal 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 RAFTShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsnoyes, based on authentication and database rules

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