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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. HyperSQL 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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#19	Overall
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Score	3.14
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

hsqldb.org

opentsdb.net

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

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

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Google

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Initial release

2015

2010

2001

2011

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

LGPL

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Java, SQL

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

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

none

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

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.

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)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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