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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. CockroachDB vs. Heroic vs. Teradata Aster vs. Tkrzw

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.69
Rank#237  Overall
#34  Key-value stores
Score6.39
Rank#60  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#242  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#380  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.cockroachlabs.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicdbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroic
DeveloperCockroach LabsSpotifyTeradataMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20132015201420052020
Current release23.1.1, May 20230.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoGoJavaC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freedynamic schemaschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesno
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.nononoyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoR packagesno
Triggersnonononono
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 RAFTShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication using RAFTyesyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonononoyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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BoltDBCockroachDBHeroicTeradata AsterTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Specific characteristicsCockroachDB is a cloud-native, distributed SQL database architected for modern applications....
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Competitive advantages- EFFORTLESS SCALE: Scale your applications, not operational complexity. CockroachDB...
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Typical application scenariosPayment processing, user account management, metadata management, identity access...
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Key customersComcast, DoorDash, Mythical Games, Norfolk Southern, Netflix, LUSH, Bose, Shipt,...
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Market metrics12K+ long-running clusters 25K+ CockroachDB self-hosted clusters 75K+ CockroachDB...
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Licensing and pricing models- Apache 2.0 for core features released up to and including the 19.1 release - Time-limited...
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