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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. LevelDB vs. SwayDB vs. Teradata Aster

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be 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.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storagePlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisgithub.com/­google/­leveldbswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.md
DeveloperCockroach LabsInterSystemsGoogleSimer PlahaTeradata
Initial release20152018201120182005
Current release23.1.1, May 20232023.3, June 20231.23, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++Scala
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemedynamic schemadepending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnonoyes
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.noyesnonoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLyesnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonoR packages
Triggersnoyesnonono
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 RAFTShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTSource-replica replicationnonenoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlyesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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