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DBMS > CockroachDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. KairosDB vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. GeoSpock vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. KairosDB vs. ToroDB

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score6.10
Rank#58  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#374  Overall
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comgeospock.comwww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docswww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidekairosdb.github.io
DeveloperCockroach LabsGeoSpockCommunity supported by Red Hat8Kdata
Initial release2015201420132016
Current release23.1.1, May 20232.0, September 20191.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJava, JavascriptJavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemedynamic schemayesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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
Secondary indexesyestemporal, categoricalnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBCHTTP RESTGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnonoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnono
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 RAFTAutomatic shardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononono
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenosimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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