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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TinkerGraph

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  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.Spatial extension of H2Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.h2gis.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudanttinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudant
DeveloperCockroach LabsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014CNRSIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20152012201320102009
Current release24.1.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaErlangJava
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
hostedhosted
Data schemedynamic schemaschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APITinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'yes infobased on H2View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyesno
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 RAFTnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
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 Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoOptimistic lockingno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infobased on H2Access rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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