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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. FatDB vs. Firebolt vs. NCache vs. OpenTSDB

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  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.A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comwww.firebolt.iowww.alachisoft.com/­ncacheopentsdb.net
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.firebolt.iowww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperCockroach LabsFatCloudFirebolt Analytics Inc.Alachisoftcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release20152012202020052011
Current release23.1.1, May 20235.3.3, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availableOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoC#C#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
WindowshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemedynamic schemaschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counternumeric 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 indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServeryesSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C#Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia applicationsnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRno
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsnoyes infoNotificationsno
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 RAFTShardingyesSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factordepending on storage layeryes, with selectable consistency levelselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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 controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)no
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CockroachDBFatDBFireboltNCacheOpenTSDB
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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Licensing and pricing modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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