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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. FeatureBase vs. NuoDB

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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.

Real-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#309	Overall
	#139	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.featurebase.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.featurebase.com

doc.nuodb.com

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Molecula and Pilosa Open Source Contributors

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2017

2013

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

2022, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

limited edition free

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

SQL queries

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

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

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using Linux fsync

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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