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Name

Description

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

CockroachDB 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

Forked from Clickhouse

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.56
Rank	#245	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#134	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

atoti.io

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.firebolt.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.atoti.io

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.firebolt.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

ActiveViam

Cockroach Labs

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2020

2013

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

depending on storage layer

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

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