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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Datomic vs. Galaxybase vs. GeoMesa

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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.

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.datomic.com

galaxybase.com

www.geomesa.org

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.datomic.com

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Cognitect

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

CCRi and others

Initial release

2015

2012

2017

2014

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

1.0.7075, December 2023

Nov 20, November 2021

5.0.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Clojure

C and Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

Strong typed schema

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

Clojure
Java

Go
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

user defined procedures and functions

Triggers

By using transaction functions

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

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

depending on storage layer

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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