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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. gStore vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. ToroDB

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Name

ToroDB 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.

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Distributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Event Store
Time Series DBMS

Document store

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Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#342	Overall
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#16	RDF stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#309	Overall
	#2	Event Stores
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

en.gstore.cn

www.ibm.com/products/db2-event-store

github.com/torodb/server

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-event-store

Developer

Cockroach Labs

IBM

8Kdata

Initial release

2015

2016

2017

2016

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

1.2, November 2023

2.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

yes

through the embedded Spark runtime

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Active-active shard replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

No - written data is immutable

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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