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DBMS > CockroachDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Hive vs. HugeGraph vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Galaxybase vs. Hive vs. HugeGraph vs. XTDB

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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 platformdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comgalaxybase.comhive.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
github.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homehugegraph.apache.org/­docswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCockroach LabsChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookBaiduJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20152017201220182019
Current release23.1.1, May 2023Nov 20, November 20213.1.3, April 20220.91.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC and JavaJavaJavaClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Unix
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemedynamic schemaStrong typed schemayesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesyesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBCBrowser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Go
Java
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined procedures and functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
Triggersnononono
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 RAFTShardingShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factoryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReducevia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
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 controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesUsers, roles and permissions

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