DBMS > CockroachDB vs. Derby vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Derby vs. IBM Cloudant vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Tibero

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Name

Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A multi-model DBMS and application server

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	1.59
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

db.apache.org/derby

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

docs.intersystems.com

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Apache Software Foundation

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

InterSystems

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2015

1997

2010

1997

2003

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

10.17.1.0, November 2023

2018.1.4, May 2020

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

C#
C++
Java

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

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

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

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

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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