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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. HBase vs. Milvus vs. STSdb

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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.

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

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Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
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Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hbase.apache.org

milvus.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

hbase.apache.org/book.html

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Google

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2015

2010

2008

2019

2011

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

2.3.4, January 2021

2.4.4, May 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

Vector, Numeric and String

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Coprocessors in Java

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

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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