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DBMS > CockroachDB vs. FatDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenTSDB vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. FatDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenTSDB vs. Rockset

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines 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.A multi-model DBMS and application serverScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheopentsdb.netrockset.com
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.intersystems.comopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldocs.rockset.com
DeveloperCockroach LabsFatCloudInterSystemscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsRockset
Initial release20152012199720112019
Current release23.1.1, May 20232018.1.4, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPLcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageGoC#JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
WindowsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
hosted
Data schemedynamic schemaschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsdynamic typing
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServeryesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C#C#
C++
Java
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia applicationsyesnono
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 RAFTShardingnoneSharding infobased on HBaseAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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