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DBMS > CockroachDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Heroic vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Heroic vs. TigerGraph

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  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.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comgalaxybase.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperCockroach LabsChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Spotify
Initial release2015201720142017
Current release23.1.1, May 2023Nov 20, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoC and JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemedynamic schemaStrong typed schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 infovia Elasticsearch
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnonoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Go
Java
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined procedures and functionsnoyes
Triggersnonono
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
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlRole-based access controlRole-based access control

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