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DBMS > CockroachDB vs. Kinetica vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Kinetica vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  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.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.kinetica.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperCockroach LabsKineticaAlex KashirinTransaction Software GmbHVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20152012202019872011
Current release24.1.0, May 20247.1, August 20210.5, April 2021Transbase 8.3, 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial infofree development licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC, C++C++C and C++C#
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemedynamic schemayesschema-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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
.Net
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoyesno
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
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 RAFTShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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