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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. ObjectBox vs. ToroDB

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.74
Rank#67  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score13.60
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
github.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperCockroach LabsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014ObjectBox Limited8Kdata
Initial release2015201220172016
Current release24.1.0, May 20244.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
hostedAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemedynamic schemaschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'no
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
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 RAFTnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
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
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyesAccess rights for users and roles
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