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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. KairosDB vs. MaxDB vs. SQL.JS

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
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.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsPort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbmaxdb.sap.comsql.js.org
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docskairosdb.github.iomaxdb.sap.com/­documentationsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperCockroach LabsSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2015201319842012
Current release23.1.1, May 20231.2.2, November 20187.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemedynamic schemaschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBCGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
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 RAFTSharding infobased on Cassandranonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlsimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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