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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. ObjectBox vs. PlanetScale vs. Sphinx

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  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.Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
planetscale.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.objectbox.ioplanetscale.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCockroach LabsObjectBox LimitedPlanetScaleSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2015201720202001
Current release24.1.0, May 20244.0 (May 2024)3.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageGoC and C++GoC++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemedynamic schemayesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCProprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersnonoyesno
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 RAFTnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesno
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