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

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

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
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 CouchDBRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsOpen Source Time Series DBMSAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
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
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlsiridb.comsqrrl.com
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanthelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.siridb.com
DeveloperCockroach LabsIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SAP infoformerly SybaseCesbitAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.
Initial release20152010199220172012
Current release23.1.1, May 202317, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoErlangCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemedynamic schemaschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infoNumeric datayes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIAccumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Actionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlnono
Triggersnoyesyesnono
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 RAFTShardingnoneShardingSharding infomaking use of Hadoop
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringyesselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoop
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDnoAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entity
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accountsCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

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