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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. H2GIS vs. Heroic vs. Lovefield vs. PouchDB

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  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.Spatial extension of H2Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comwww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldpouchdb.com
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homespotify.github.io/­heroicgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperCockroach LabsCNRSSpotifyGoogleApache Software Foundation
Initial release20152013201420142012
Current release24.1.0, May 20242.1.12, February 20177.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaJavaScriptJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safariserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemedynamic schemayesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLyesnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
JavaJavaScriptJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infobased on H2nonoView functions in JavaScript
TriggersnoyesnoUsing read-only observersyes
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 RAFTnoneShardingnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTyes infobased on H2yesnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes infousing MemoryDByes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlyes infobased on H2nono

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