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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. CockroachDB vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

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.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	1.00
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	6.10
Rank	#58	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#116	Overall
	#22	Document stores

Website

altibase.com

www.cockroachlabs.com

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Altibase

Cockroach Labs

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

1999

2015

2012

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

23.1.1, May 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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