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DBMS > CockroachDB vs. Graphite vs. OpenQM vs. PlanetScale

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Graphite vs. OpenQM vs. PlanetScale

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  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.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.74
Rank#67  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score5.19
Rank#62  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#291  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.09
Rank#178  Overall
#82  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmplanetscale.com
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsgraphite.readthedocs.ioplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperCockroach LabsChris DavisRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsPlanetScale
Initial release2015200619932020
Current release24.1.0, May 20243.4-12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoPythonGo
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Unix
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemedynamic schemayesyes infowith some exceptionsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnonoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP API
Sockets
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnonoyesyes
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 RAFTnoneyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTnoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infolockingyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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