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DBMS > CockroachDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Greenplum vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Greenplum vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. LokiJS

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCockroachDB 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.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.In-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score6.10
Rank#58  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score15.00
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score9.23
Rank#47  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#374  Overall
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#262  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegreenplum.orgwww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.greenplum.orgwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidetechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperCockroach LabsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Pivotal Software Inc.Community supported by Red Hat
Initial release20152012200520142014
Current release23.1.1, May 20237.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemedynamic schemaschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'yesnoView functions in JavaScript
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTShardingSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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