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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. eXtremeDB vs. FatDB vs. SQLite

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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.

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	6.10
Rank	#58	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	0.73
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.mcobject.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Cockroach Labs

McObject

FatCloud

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2015

2001

2012

2000

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

8.2, 2021

3.45.2 (12 March 2024), March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Windows

server-less

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

Triggers

yes

by defining events

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

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

selectable replication factor

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

via file-system locks

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

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Specific characteristics

CockroachDB is a cloud-native, distributed SQL database architected for modern applications....
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eXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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Competitive advantages

- EFFORTLESS SCALE: Scale your applications, not operational complexity. CockroachDB...
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eXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Typical application scenarios

Payment processing, user account management, metadata management, identity access...
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IoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customers

Comcast, DoorDash, Mythical Games, Norfolk Southern, Netflix, LUSH, Bose, Shipt,...
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Schneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metrics

12K+ long-running clusters 25K+ CockroachDB self-hosted clusters 75K+ CockroachDB...
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With hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing models

- Apache 2.0 for core features released up to and including the 19.1 release - Time-limited...
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For server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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