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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. PouchDB vs. SingleStore vs. Transbase

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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

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Rank	#19	Overall
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Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
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Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
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Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
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Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

pouchdb.com

www.singlestore.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

docs.singlestore.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Google

Apache Software Foundation

SingleStore Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2015

2010

2012

2013

1987

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

8.5, January 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, Go

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

64 bit version required

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

yes

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

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate 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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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 control via users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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