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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. HarperDB vs. OpenTSDB

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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

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#244	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.harperdb.io

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.harperdb.io/docs

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Google

HarperDB

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2015

2010

2017

2011

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

3.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Node.js

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

dynamic schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

SQL-like data manipulation statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

Triggers

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

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

Atomic execution of specific operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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 rights for users and roles

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