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DBMS > CockroachDB vs. KairosDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. RavenDB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. KairosDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. RavenDB vs. ToroDB

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbopentsdb.netravendb.netgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docskairosdb.github.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlravendb.net/­docs
DeveloperCockroach Labscurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsHibernating Rhinos8Kdata
Initial release20152013201120102016
Current release23.1.1, May 20231.2.2, November 20185.4, July 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaC#Java
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemedynamic schemaschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsnoyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnonoSQL-like query language (RQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
HTTP API
Telnet API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnononoyesno
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 RAFTSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBaseShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBaseDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableno
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlsimple password-based access controlnoAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseAccess rights for users and roles

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