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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. DuckDB vs. Hive vs. RDF4J

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  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.An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comduckdb.orghive.apache.orgrdf4j.org
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsduckdb.org/­docscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homerdf4j.org/­documentation
DeveloperCockroach LabsApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.
Initial release2015201820122004
Current release23.1.1, May 20230.10, February 20243.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoC++JavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
server-lessAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemedynamic schemayesyesyes infoRDF Schemas
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyes
Triggersnononoyes
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 RAFTnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTnoneselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as well
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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