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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SiriDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.74
Rank	#67	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#343	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.84
Rank	#76	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

greptime.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

siridb.com

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.greptime.com

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Greptime Inc.

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Sybase, SAP

Cesbit

Initial release

2015

2022

2009

1993

2017

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Rust

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Delphi
Perl
PHP

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

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

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Simple rights management via user accounts

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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