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DBMS > BigObject vs. CockroachDB vs. KeyDB vs. mSQL

System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. CockroachDB vs. KeyDB vs. mSQL

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparison
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.An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational 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
Score0.70
Rank#229  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.cockroachlabs.comgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
hughestech.com.au/­products/­msql
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iowww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.keydb.dev
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.Cockroach LabsEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.Hughes Technologies
Initial release2015201520191994
Current release24.1.0, May 20244.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoBSD-3commercial infofree licenses can be provided
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C
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
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesdynamic schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanoLuano
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 RAFTShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication using RAFTMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlsimple password-based access control and ACLno

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