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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. FatDB vs. InterSystems Caché vs. searchxml

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Name

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.

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 multi-model DBMS and application server

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	4.74
Rank	#67	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.intersystems.com

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Cockroach Labs

FatCloud

InterSystems

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2015

2012

1997

2015

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

2018.1.4, May 2020

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free

depending on used data model

schema-free

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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