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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. dBASE vs. DuckDB vs. KairosDB vs. Spark SQL

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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.dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comwww.dbase.comduckdb.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docswww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebaseduckdb.org/­docskairosdb.github.iospark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperCockroach LabsAsthon TateApache Software Foundation
Initial release20151979201820132014
Current release23.1.1, May 2023dBASE 2019, 20190.10, February 20241.2.2, November 20183.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++JavaScala
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
server-lessLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedynamic schemayesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoyesnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBCnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
dBase proprietary IDEC
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
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonono
Triggersnonononono
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 RAFTnonenoneSharding infobased on Cassandrayes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTnonenoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and rolesnosimple password-based access controlno

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