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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Geode vs. OpenTSDB vs. RethinkDB

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  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.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comgeode.apache.orgopentsdb.netrethinkdb.com
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsgeode.apache.org/­docsopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlrethinkdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCockroach LabsOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017
Initial release2015200220112009
Current release24.1.0, May 20241.1, February 20172.4.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedynamic schemaschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometry
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 indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLSQL-like query language (OQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event ListenersnoClient-side triggers through changefeeds
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 RAFTShardingSharding infobased on HBaseSharding inforange based
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodenoAtomic single-document operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC based
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights per client and object definablenoyes infousers and table-level permissions

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