DBMS > CockroachDB vs. Drizzle vs. Google BigQuery vs. Heroic

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Drizzle vs. Google BigQuery vs. Heroic

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded 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.

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

github.com/spotify/heroic

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

spotify.github.io/heroic

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Google

Spotify

Initial release

2015

2008

2010

2014

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Java
PHP

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

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

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

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

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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