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DBMS > CockroachDB vs. IRONdb vs. PouchDB vs. Splice Machine vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. IRONdb vs. PouchDB vs. Splice Machine vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#371  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/pouchdb.comsplicemachine.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedpouchdb.com/­guidessplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperCockroach LabsCirconus LLC.Apache Software FoundationSplice MachineTranswarp
Initial release2015201720122014
Current release24.1.0, May 2024V0.10.20, January 20187.1.1, June 20193.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++JavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedynamic schemaschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)noyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
OpenCypher
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaScriptC#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in LuaView functions in JavaScriptyes infoJava
Triggersnonoyesyes
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 RAFTAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioninghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
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 controlnonoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardyes

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