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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. MySQL vs. OpenMLDB vs. Rockset vs. TempoIQ

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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.

Widely used open source RDBMS

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#359	Overall
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.mysql.com

openmldb.ai

rockset.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

4 Paradigm Inc.

Rockset

TempoIQ

Initial release

2015

1995

2020

2019

2012

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

8.4.0, April 2024

2024-2 February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

Fixed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

HTTP REST

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

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

C++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

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, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

simple authentication-based access control

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