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DBMS > CockroachDB vs. CouchDB vs. Hypertable vs. Manticore Search vs. NuoDB

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. CouchDB vs. Hypertable vs. Manticore Search vs. NuoDB

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionCockroachDB 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 JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeWide column storeSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comcouchdb.apache.orgmanticoresearch.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-database
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablemanual.manticoresearch.comdoc.nuodb.com
DeveloperCockroach LabsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerHypertable Inc.Manticore SoftwareDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release20152005200920172013
Current release24.1.0, May 20243.3.3, December 20230.9.8.11, March 20166.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial infolimited edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoErlangC++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedynamic schemaschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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.nonoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsrestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnonoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON APIC++ API
Thrift
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptnouser defined functionsJava, SQL
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal 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 RAFTSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supporteddata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor on file system levelSynchronous replication based on Galera libraryyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDB
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACID infotunable commit protocol
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes infoMVCC
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenonoStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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