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DBMS > CockroachDB vs. Datomic vs. Drizzle vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Datomic vs. Drizzle vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. TerminusDB

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Adaptive Server infoformer name: Sybase ASE  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded 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.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMSScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Boeing's Spatial Query ServerDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.74
Rank#67  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score32.67
Rank#25  Overall
#17  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comwww.datomic.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-ase.htmlterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.datomic.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_ASEterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperCockroach LabsCognitectDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerSAP, SybaseDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20152012200819872018
Current release24.1.0, May 20241.0.7180, July 20247.2.4, September 201216.011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJava, ClojureC++C and C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemedynamic schemayesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP APIJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Clojure
Java
C
C++
Java
PHP
C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction FunctionsnoJava and Transact-SQLyes
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyes
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 RAFTnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardinghorizontal partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and development
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlnoPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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