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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. H2 vs. RethinkDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  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.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Spatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comwww.h2database.comrethinkdb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docswww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlrethinkdb.com/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperCockroach LabsThomas MuellerThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Alessandro Furieri
Initial release2015200520092008
Current release24.1.0, May 20242.2.220, July 20232.4.1, August 20205.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemedynamic schemayesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
JavaC infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
TriggersnoyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes
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 RAFTnoneSharding inforange basednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDAtomic single-document operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMVCC basedyes
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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissionsno

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