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DBMS > BigObject vs. CockroachDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Memcached

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. CockroachDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Memcached

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesCockroachDB 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 scaleIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.cockroachlabs.comgeospock.comwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Cockroach LabsGeoSpockDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release201520152003
Current release24.1.0, May 20242.0, September 20191.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageGoJava, JavascriptC
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesdynamic schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)no
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJDBCProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal 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 shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication using RAFTnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tableyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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