DBMS > CockroachDB vs. Datomic vs. NCache vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Datomic vs. NCache vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

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.

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

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

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

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Search engine

Using distributed Lucene

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Rank	#58	Overall
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Score	1.76
Rank	#145	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.98
Rank	#196	Overall
	#29	Key-value stores

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

Score	4.57
Rank	#78	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.datomic.com

www.alachisoft.com/ncache

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.datomic.com

www.alachisoft.com/resources/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Cognitect

Alachisoft

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2015

2012

2005

2013

1992

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

1.0.6735, June 2023

5.3, September 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Enterprise Edition available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C#, .NET, .NET Core, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

partial

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

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

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Clojure
Java

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

support for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLR

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Notifications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

CockroachDB is a cloud-native, distributed SQL database architected for modern applications....
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Competitive advantages

- EFFORTLESS SCALE: Scale your applications, not operational complexity. CockroachDB...
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NCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenarios

Payment processing, user account management, metadata management, identity access...
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NCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customers

Comcast, DoorDash, Mythical Games, Norfolk Southern, Netflix, LUSH, Bose, Shipt,...
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Bank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metrics

12K+ long-running clusters 25K+ CockroachDB self-hosted clusters 75K+ CockroachDB...
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Market Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing models

- Apache 2.0 for core features released up to and including the 19.1 release - Time-limited...
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