DBMS > CockroachDB vs. Drizzle vs. H2 vs. TempoIQ vs. Typesense

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Drizzle vs. H2 vs. TempoIQ vs. Typesense

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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.

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed 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.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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

Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	8.13
Rank	#49	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#210	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.h2database.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

typesense.org

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

typesense.org/docs

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Thomas Mueller

TempoIQ

Initial release

2015

2008

2005

2012

2015

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

7.2.4, September 2012

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

GNU GPL

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Java
PHP

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

yes

Realtime Alerts

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple authentication-based access control

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