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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. HyperSQL vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. TerarkDB

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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.

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Key-value store

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Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
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Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#367	Overall
	#56	Key-value stores

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

hsqldb.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Microsoft

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2015

2001

2012

2016

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

2.7.2, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

hosted

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

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

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

none

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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