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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. RethinkDB vs. searchxml vs. XTDB

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  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.TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.commachbase.comrethinkdb.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsmachbase.com/­dbmsrethinkdb.com/­docswww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCockroach LabsMachbaseThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017informationpartners gmbhJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20152013200920152019
Current release24.1.0, May 2024V8.0, August 20232.4.1, August 20201.01.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercial infofree test version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoCC++C++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
WindowsAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemedynamic schemayesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLSQL-like query languagenonolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBCgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsClojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoon the application serverno
TriggersnonoClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
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 RAFTShardingSharding inforange basednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoAtomic single-document operationsmultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infovolatile and lookup tablenono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlsimple password-based access controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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