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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Cassandra vs. CockroachDB vs. NuoDB

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Name

Description

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

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

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.

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

cassandra.apache.org

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Cockroach Labs

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2008

2015

2013

Current release

15585

4.1.3, July 2023

24.1.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

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

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Role-based access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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