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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Quasardb vs. SQLite

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Name

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.

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.74
Rank	#67	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

opentsdb.net

quasar.ai

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Cockroach Labs

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

quasardb

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2015

2011

2009

2000

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

integer and binary

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP API
Telnet API

HTTP API

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

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

Triggers

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

based on HBase

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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