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DBMS > Axibase vs. CockroachDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Postgres-XL vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. CockroachDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Postgres-XL vs. RDF4J

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationCockroachDB 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.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRDF store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.cockroachlabs.comgeospock.comwww.postgres-xl.orgrdf4j.org
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationrdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperAxibase CorporationCockroach LabsGeoSpockSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release201320152014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2004
Current release1558524.1.0, May 20242.0, September 201910 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJava, JavascriptCJava
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesdynamic schemayesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonouser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal 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 RAFTAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using RAFTnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID infoMVCCACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
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 controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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