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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Coveo vs. EsgynDB vs. RocksDB vs. Sphinx

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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.

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

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Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	2.11
Rank	#118	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.coveo.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Coveo

Esgyn

Facebook, Inc.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2015

2012

2015

2013

2001

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

yes

schema-free

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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

yes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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