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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Machbase Neo

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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.

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	1.19
Rank	#173	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.eventstore.com

www.hawkular.org

machbase.com

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

developers.eventstore.com

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Event Store Limited

Community supported by Red Hat

Machbase

Initial release

2015

2012

2014

2013

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

21.2, February 2021

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP REST

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

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

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

simple password-based access control

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