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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Hyprcubd vs. Lovefield vs. Memcached

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Name

Hyprcubd 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.

Serverless Time Series DBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Primary database model

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Score	6.10
Rank	#58	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	0.32
Rank	#290	Overall
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	20.74
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

hyprcubd.com (offline)

google.github.io/lovefield

www.memcached.org

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Google

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Initial release

2015

2014

2003

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

1.6.25, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

gRPC (https)

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Using read-only observers

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

token access

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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