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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Dolt vs. jBASE vs. Oracle

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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.

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.dolthub.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Cockroach Labs

DoltHub Inc

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Oracle

Initial release

2015

2018

1991

1980

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

5.7

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

CLI Client
HTTP REST

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

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

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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