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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. FatDB vs. Graphite vs. Hive vs. InfluxDB

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisperdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDBMS for storing time series, events and metrics
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score24.39
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webhive.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overview
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.iocwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperCockroach LabsFatCloudChris DavisApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebook
Initial release20152012200620122013
Current release24.1.0, May 20243.1.3, April 20222.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC#PythonJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
WindowsLinux
Unix
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Data schemedynamic schemaschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesNumeric data and Strings
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 indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServernoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
HTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C#JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia applicationsnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceno
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsnonono
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 RAFTShardingnoneShardingSharding infoin enterprise version only
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factornoneselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple rights management via user accounts
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Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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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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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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