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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Newts vs. SAP IQ

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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.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

column-oriented

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Score	6.10
Rank	#58	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	0.81
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.geomesa.org

opennms.github.io/newts

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Cockroach Labs

CCRi and others

OpenNMS Group

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2015

2014

1994

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

4.0.5, February 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

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

HTTP REST
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

depending on storage layer

Sharding

based on Cassandra

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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.

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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