DBMS > atoti vs. Axibase vs. CockroachDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison atoti vs. Axibase vs. CockroachDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP HANA

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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.

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.32
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Score	6.10
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Score	4.00
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Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

atoti.io

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.cockroachlabs.com

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

ActiveViam

Axibase Corporation

Cockroach Labs

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

Initial release

2013

2015

2013

2010

Current release

15585

23.1.1, May 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

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

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

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

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

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

yes

SQLScript, R

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

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

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