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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. H2 vs. SiteWhere

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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.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	6.10
Rank	#58	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	8.22
Rank	#50	Overall
	#32	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#367	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.h2database.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Thomas Mueller

SiteWhere

Initial release

2015

2005

2010

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

predefined scheme

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

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

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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