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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Dgraph vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Sequoiadb vs. TerminusDB

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
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.Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMSCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comdgraph.iofirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.sequoiadb.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdgraph.io/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperCockroach LabsDgraph Labs, Inc.Google infoacquired by Google 2014Sequoiadb Ltd.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20152016201220132018
Current release24.1.0, May 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageGoGoC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
Data schemedynamic schemaschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
proprietary protocol using JSONOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonolimited functionality with using 'rules'JavaScriptyes
TriggersnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
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 RAFTyesShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
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 controlno infoPlanned for future releasesyes, based on authentication and database rulessimple password-based access controlRole-based access control

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