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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. FatDB vs. MaxDB vs. OpenTSDB

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  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.A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score6.10
Rank#58  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score2.65
Rank#111  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#147  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.commaxdb.sap.comopentsdb.net
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperCockroach LabsFatCloudSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2015201219842011
Current release23.1.1, May 20237.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoC#C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
WindowsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemedynamic schemaschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL Serveryesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C#.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infovia applicationsyesno
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsyesno
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 HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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