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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. dBASE vs. EXASOL vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google Cloud Bigtable

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  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.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Key-value store
Wide column store
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.99
Rank#124  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score0.97
Rank#192  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#92  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comwww.dbase.comwww.exasol.comwww.gigaspaces.comcloud.google.com/­bigtable
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docswww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmlcloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docs
DeveloperCockroach LabsAsthon TateExasolGigaspaces TechnologiesGoogle
Initial release20151979200020002015
Current release23.1.1, May 2023dBASE 2019, 201915.5, September 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageGoJava, C++, .Net
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemedynamic schemayesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatano
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoyesSQL-99 for query and DML statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources..Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
dBase proprietary IDEJava
Lua
Python
R
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.user defined functionsyesno
Triggersnonoyesyes, event driven architectureno
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 RAFTnoneShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTnoneMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Internal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zones
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoHadoop integrationyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYImmediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
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 DBMSACIDACIDAtomic single-row operations
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.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

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