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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. JSqlDb

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Name

JSqlDB 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.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

Developer

Cockroach Labs

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Konrad von Backstrom

Initial release

2015

2010

2018

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

0.8, December 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

functions in JavaScript

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

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

atomic operations within a document possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

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