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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. JSqlDb vs. searchxml

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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.

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

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Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	128.46
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Cockroach Labs

IBM

Konrad von Backstrom

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2015

1983

host version

2018

2015

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

12.1, October 2016

0.8, December 2018

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

functions in JavaScript

yes

on the application server

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

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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