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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Drizzle vs. IRONdb vs. LeanXcale vs. Oracle NoSQL

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#291  Overall
#41  Key-value stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.leanxcale.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosql
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.html
DeveloperCockroach LabsDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerCirconus LLC.LeanXcaleOracle
Initial release20152008201720152011
Current release23.1.1, May 20237.2.4, September 2012V0.10.20, January 201823.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++C and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Data schemedynamic schemayesschema-freeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsoptional
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infothrough Apache DerbySQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBCHTTP APIJDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
Java
Scala
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in Luano
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.nono
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 RAFTShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter awareElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes infooff heap cache
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPnoAccess rights for users and roles

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