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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. FatDB vs. GBase vs. InfluxDB vs. Quasardb

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.24
Rank#68  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score21.47
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comwww.gbase.cnwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperCockroach LabsFatCloudGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.quasardb
Initial release20152012200420132009
Current release24.1.0, May 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.7.6, April 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC#C, Java, PythonGoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
WindowsLinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedynamic schemaschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes infointeger and binary
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C#C#.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia applicationsuser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsyesnono
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 RAFTShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factoryesselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsyessimple rights management via user accountsCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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