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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Infobright vs. OrientDB vs. Stardog

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  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.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
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Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score2.02
Rank#123  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comwww.geomesa.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdborientdb.orgwww.stardog.com
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmldocs.stardog.com
DeveloperCockroach LabsCCRi and othersIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPStardog-Union
Initial release20152014200520102010
Current release23.1.1, May 20234.0.5, February 20243.2.29, March 20247.3.0, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoApache version 2commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoScalaCJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemedynamic schemayesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonononono infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoyesSQL-like query language, no joinsYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJava, Javascriptuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java
TriggersnononoHooksyes infovia event handlers
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 RAFTdepending on storage layernoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTdepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication in HA-Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-Cluster
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes inforelationship in graphsyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layeryesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableAccess rights for users and roles

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