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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Ehcache vs. FatDB vs. FeatureBase

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Name

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

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.

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#309	Overall
	#139	Relational DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.ehcache.org

www.featurebase.com

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

www.ehcache.org/documentation

docs.featurebase.com

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

FatCloud

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Initial release

2015

2009

2012

2017

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

3.10.0, March 2022

2022, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL queries

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JCache

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

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java

Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

via applications

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

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

by using Terracotta Server

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

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

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