DBMS > Axibase vs. CockroachDB vs. NCache vs. RethinkDB vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. CockroachDB vs. NCache vs. RethinkDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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.

Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value Store

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.35
Rank	#282	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#195	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

Score	2.66
Rank	#107	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

rethinkdb.com

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

rethinkdb.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Cockroach Labs

Alachisoft

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2013

2015

2005

2009

2013

Current release

15585

24.1.0, May 2024

5.3.3, April 2024

2.4.1, August 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

partial

Supported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counter

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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

SQL-like query language

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

SQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

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
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

Triggers

yes

Notifications

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

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

yes

Sharding

range based

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking and pessimistic locking

Atomic single-document operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

Authentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)

yes

users and table-level permissions

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