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DBMS > CockroachDB vs. EXASOL vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. RDF4J vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. EXASOL vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. RDF4J vs. Transbase

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  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.High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMS
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Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#366  Overall
#39  Time Series DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comwww.exasol.comwww.hawkular.orgrdf4j.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docswww.exasol.com/­resourceswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guiderdf4j.org/­documentationwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperCockroach LabsExasolCommunity supported by Red HatSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20152000201420041987
Current release24.1.0, May 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedynamic schemayesschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
HTTP RESTJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Java
Lua
Python
R
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Java
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyesyes
Triggersnoyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesyes
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 RAFTShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoHadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
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, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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