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DBMS > CockroachDB vs. Firebolt vs. Ignite vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Firebolt vs. Ignite vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Sphinx

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.Oracles in-memory data grid solutionOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comwww.firebolt.ioignite.apache.orgwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencesphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.firebolt.ioapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencesphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCockroach LabsFirebolt Analytics Inc.Apache Software FoundationOracleSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20152020201520072001
Current release24.1.0, May 2024Apache Ignite 2.614.1, August 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoC++, Java, .NetJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedynamic schemayesyesschema-freeyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nono
Triggersnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)yes infoLive Eventsno
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 RAFTShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTdepending on storage layeryes (replicated cache)yes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDconfigurableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infooptionallyyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationno

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