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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Hypertable vs. Machbase Neo vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed 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.

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	4.74
Rank	#67	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#348	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.42
Rank	#263	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

machbase.com

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

machbase.com/dbms

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

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Hypertable Inc.

Machbase

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2009

2013

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

0.9.8.11, March 2016

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

C++ API
Thrift

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor on file system level

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

simple password-based access control

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