DBMS > CockroachDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. GridGain vs. MySQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. GridGain vs. MySQL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

CockroachDB 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.

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

Widely used open source RDBMS

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	132.83
Rank	#7	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	3.95
Rank	#80	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

www.gridgain.com

www.mysql.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

dev.mysql.com/doc

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Elastic

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2015

2010

2007

1995

1992

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

8.6, January 2023

GridGain 8.5.1

8.4.0, April 2024

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

yes

proprietary syntax

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Security Hooks for custom implementations

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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