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

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

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.

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.cockroachlabs.com

en.gstore.cn

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Cockroach Labs

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2015

2016

1994

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

1.2, November 2023

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

Triggers

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

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