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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. CrateDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

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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.

Distributed Database based on Lucene

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.85
Rank	#64	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	0.68
Rank	#224	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#12	Vector DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

cratedb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

cratedb.com/docs

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Crate

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2015

2013

2009

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

5.8.1, August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

ACID

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

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Recent citations in the news

Cockroach Labs shakes up its licensing to force bigger companies to pay
15 August 2024, TechCrunch

CockroachDB scuttles away from open source Core offering
19 August 2024, The Register

CockroachDB retires self-hosted Core offering, makes Enterprise version free for companies under $10M in annual revenue
15 August 2024, SDTimes.com

Now CockroachDB Ditches Open-Source License
20 August 2024, It's FOSS News

Cockroach Labs and PwC UK Announce Strategic Collaboration, Delivering Solutions for Operational Resiliency, Data Sovereignty, and Mainframe Modernization
12 August 2024, PR Newswire

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15 June 2021, VentureBeat

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