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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Firebolt vs. jBASE vs. MonetDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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 ClickhouseA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comwww.firebolt.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasewww.monetdb.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.firebolt.iodocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9www.monetdb.org/­Documentationvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperCockroach LabsFirebolt Analytics Inc.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)MonetDB BVVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20152020199120042011
Current release24.1.0, May 20245.7Dec2023 (11.49), December 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoCC#
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
hostedAIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemedynamic schemayesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
.Net
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes, in SQL, C, Rno
TriggersnonoyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
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 via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTdepending on storage layeryesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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