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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Newts vs. SAP IQ vs. VelocityDB

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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.

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

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Score	6.10
Rank	#58	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#347	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

opennms.github.io/newts

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Cockroach Labs

OpenNMS Group

SAP, formerly Sybase

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2015

2014

1994

2011

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP REST
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.Net

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

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

Sharding

based on Cassandra

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Based on Windows Authentication

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