DBMS > CockroachDB vs. Kdb vs. MySQL vs. TempoIQ vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Kdb vs. MySQL vs. TempoIQ vs. Trino

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed 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.

High performance Time Series DBMS

Widely used open source RDBMS

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	4.99
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

kx.com

www.mysql.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

trino.io

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

code.kx.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

TempoIQ

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2015

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

1995

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

3.6, May 2018

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

yes

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

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Realtime Alerts

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

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

simple authentication-based access control

SQL standard access control

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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