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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. HugeGraph vs. IRONdb

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Baidu

Circonus LLC.

Initial release

2015

2018

2017

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

0.9

V0.10.20, January 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS
Unix

Linux

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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 query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Groovy
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes, in Lua

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

yes

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

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

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

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

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

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Users, roles and permissions

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