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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Fauna vs. GBase vs. Ignite vs. RocksDB

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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.

Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#26	Document stores
	#14	Graph DBMS
	#71	Relational DBMS
	#13	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.fauna.com

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Fauna, Inc.

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2014

2004

2015

2013

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

Apache Ignite 2.6

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Scala

C, Java, Python

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

Standard with numerous extensions

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

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

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

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

horizontal partitioning

consistent hashing

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication

yes

yes (replicated cache)

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

yes

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

Identity management, authentication, and access control

yes

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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