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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. HBase vs. OceanBase vs. OpenMLDB vs. Sequoiadb

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonOpenMLDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  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.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLAn open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inferenceNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.66
Rank#147  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#367  Overall
#37  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comhbase.apache.orgen.oceanbase.comopenmldb.aiwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmlen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databaseopenmldb.ai/­docs/­zh/­mainwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperCockroach LabsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant Group4 Paradigm Inc.Sequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20152008201020202013
Current release23.1.1, May 20232.3.4, January 20214.3.0, April 20242024-2 February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoCommercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++C++, Java, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemedynamic schemaschema-free, schema definition possibleyesFixed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoyesyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
JDBC
SQLAlchemy
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in JavaPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modenoJavaScript
Triggersnoyesyesnono
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 RAFTShardinghorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)horizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication using PaxosSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDnoDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control
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Key customersOceanBase Database has helped over 400 customers across industries upgrade their...
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Market metricsTPC-C No.1 Performance , achieved a result of 707.35 million tpmC in the TPC-C benchmark...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMulan PubL v2 license for open source community edition. Commercial license for enterprise...
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