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DBMS > CockroachDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Quasardb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Quasardb vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiriDB

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCockroachDB 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 CouchDBDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsOpen Source Time Series DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantquasar.aiwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsiridb.com
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdoc.quasar.ai/­masterhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.siridb.com
DeveloperCockroach LabsIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014quasardbSAP infoformerly SybaseCesbit
Initial release20152010200919922017
Current release23.1.1, May 20233.14.1, January 202417, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoErlangC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
hostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemedynamic schemaschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infointeger and binaryyesyes infoNumeric data
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyeswith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modeyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts

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