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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. CockroachDB vs. Fauna vs. HBase vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

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.

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.cockroachlabs.com

fauna.com

hbase.apache.org

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.fauna.com

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Fauna, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2015

2014

2008

2013

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Coprocessors in Java

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

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

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Document is locked during a transaction

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Identity management, authentication, and access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

simple password-based access control

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