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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. GBase vs. Qdrant vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Document store

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Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.28
Rank	#167	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.gbase.cn

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

qdrant.tech/documentation

Developer

Cockroach Labs

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Qdrant

8Kdata

Initial release

2015

2004

2021

2016

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

Standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

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 (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

Collection-level replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes

Key-based authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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