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System Properties Comparison atoti vs. Axibase vs. CockroachDB vs. Interbase vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

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

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.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Score	0.59
Rank	#242	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#288	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	6.10
Rank	#58	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	5.04
Rank	#71	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

atoti.io

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

ActiveViam

Axibase Corporation

Cockroach Labs

Embarcadero

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2015

1984

2013

Current release

15585

23.1.1, May 2023

InterBase 2020, December 2019

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

SQL-like query language

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

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

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Interbase Change Views

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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