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DBMS > CockroachDB vs. Databend vs. IRONdb vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Databend vs. IRONdb vs. Titan

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
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.An open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexityA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#283  Overall
#130  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comgithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/github.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.databend.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperCockroach LabsDatabend LabsCirconus LLC.Aurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release2015202120172012
Current release24.1.0, May 20241.0.59, April 2023V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoRustC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Linux
macOS
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemedynamic schemayesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLyesSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBCCLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in Luayes
Triggersnononoyes
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 RAFTnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTnoneconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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