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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. HarperDB vs. HugeGraph

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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.

Ultra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

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Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	0.55
Rank	#248	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.harperdb.io

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.harperdb.io/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

Developer

Cockroach Labs

HarperDB

Baidu

Initial release

2015

2017

2018

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

3.1, August 2021

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Node.js

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS
Unix

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON data types

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

also supports composite index and range index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

SQL-like data manipulation statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

Groovy
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

Triggers

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

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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

Access rights for users and roles

Users, roles and permissions

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