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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. MySQL vs. OpenTSDB vs. Rockset

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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.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.mysql.com

opentsdb.net

rockset.com

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.rockset.com

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Rockset

Initial release

2015

1995

2011

2019

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

8.4.0, April 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

LGPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

dynamic typing

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

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Telnet API

HTTP REST

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

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

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

based on HBase

Automatic sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

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

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