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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Galaxybase vs. SAP HANA vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

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.

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#377	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

galaxybase.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

help.sap.com/hana

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

SAP

Transwarp

Initial release

2015

2017

2010

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

Nov 20, November 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

dynamic schema

Strong typed schema

yes

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

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

SQLScript, R

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

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

Relationships in graphs

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

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