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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Lovefield vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

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.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

google.github.io/lovefield

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Google

Percona

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2015

2014

2008

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

8.0.36-28, 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

dynamic schema

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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