DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. CockroachDB vs. FatDB vs. IRONdb vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. CockroachDB vs. FatDB vs. IRONdb vs. OpenTSDB

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

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.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	74.07
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Amazon

Cockroach Labs

FatCloud

Circonus LLC.

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2012

2015

2012

2017

2011

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

HTTP API

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes, in Lua

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

via applications

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

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

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.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Role-based access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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