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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. CockroachDB vs. Interbase vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

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.

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.07
Rank	#346	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.74
Rank	#67	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	3.78
Rank	#77	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Cockroach Labs

Embarcadero

Initial release

2012

2015

1984

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

24.1.0, May 2024

InterBase 2020, December 2019

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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.

export as XML data possible

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

user defined functions

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

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

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Interbase Change Views

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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