DBMS > BaseX vs. CockroachDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. GreptimeDB vs. ObjectBox

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. CockroachDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. GreptimeDB vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

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.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.84
Rank	#135	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#351	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

basex.org

www.cockroachlabs.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

greptime.com

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.greptime.com

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Cockroach Labs

Google

Greptime Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2007

2015

2010

2022

2017

Current release

10.7, August 2023

24.1.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Python

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Role-based access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Simple rights management via user accounts

yes

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