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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. CockroachDB vs. FatDB vs. InterSystems Caché

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Name

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

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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 multi-model DBMS and application server

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	0.06
Rank	#352	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.74
Rank	#67	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.intersystems.com

Developer

Rackspace

Cockroach Labs

FatCloud

InterSystems

Initial release

2013

2015

2012

1997

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

2018.1.4, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

JDBC

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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