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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Dolt vs. Rockset

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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 scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS
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Score	3.90
Rank	#68	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#232	Overall
	#106	Relational DBMS

Score	0.88
Rank	#200	Overall
	#34	Document stores

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

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

rockset.com

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.dolthub.com

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Cockroach Labs

DoltHub Inc

Rockset

Initial release

2015

2018

2019

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

CLI Client
HTTP REST

HTTP REST

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

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

Automatic sharding

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

In-memory capabilities

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

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 for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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