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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. EsgynDB vs. FatDB vs. OpenSearch vs. OpenTSDB

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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.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

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

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Esgyn

FatCloud

Amazon Web Services

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2015

2012

2021

2011

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

via applications

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

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

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

selectable replication factor

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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.

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Can implement custom security layer via applications

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