DBMS > CockroachDB vs. FatDB vs. Hazelcast vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. FatDB vs. Hazelcast vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Snowflake

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

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	4.74
Rank	#67	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	5.72
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	32.67
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	133.72
Rank	#7	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

hazelcast.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Cockroach Labs

FatCloud

Hazelcast

SAP, Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2012

2008

1987

2014

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

5.3.6, November 2023

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

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

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

Java and Transact-SQL

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Events

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

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

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor

yes

Replicated Map

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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