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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. DuckDB vs. FatDB vs. OpenTSDB

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionCockroachDB 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.An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score6.10
Rank#58  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score4.68
Rank#76  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#147  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comduckdb.orgopentsdb.net
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsduckdb.org/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperCockroach LabsFatCloudcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2015201820122011
Current release23.1.1, May 20230.10, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C#Java
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
server-lessWindowsLinux
Windows
Data schemedynamic schemayesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLyesno infoVia inetgration in SQL Serverno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C#Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infovia applicationsno
Triggersnonoyes infovia applicationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTnoneShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTnoneselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlnono infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsno

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