DBMS > CockroachDB vs. EsgynDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SAP HANA vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. EsgynDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SAP HANA vs. SpatiaLite

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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.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.heavy.ai

help.sap.com/hana

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Esgyn

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

SAP

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2015

2016

2010

2008

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

5.10, January 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++ and CUDA

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

server-less

Data scheme

dynamic schema

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

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

Round robin

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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