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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. HBase vs. Oracle vs. Sequoiadb vs. STSdb

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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.

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Widely used RDBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	1236.29
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

hbase.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database

www.sequoiadb.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Oracle

Sequoiadb Ltd.

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2015

2008

1980

2013

2011

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

23c, September 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

proprietary protocol using JSON

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

JavaScript

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

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Document is locked during a transaction

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.

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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