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DBMS > CockroachDB vs. Dragonfly vs. Faircom DB

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Dragonfly vs. Faircom DB

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  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.A drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.74
Rank#67  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score0.44
Rank#255  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score0.18
Rank#314  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-db
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docswww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html
DeveloperCockroach LabsDragonflyDB team and community contributorsFairCom Corporation
Initial release201520231979
Current release24.1.0, May 20241.0, March 2023V13, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoBSL 1.1commercial infoRestricted, free version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageGoC++ANSI C, C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Data schemedynamic schemascheme-freeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBCProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuayes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes
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 RAFTFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTSource-replica replicationyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptstunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlPassword-based authenticationFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

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