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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. ObjectBox vs. SQLite vs. SQream DB

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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.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

objectbox.io

www.sqlite.org

sqream.com

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.objectbox.io

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Cockroach Labs

ObjectBox Limited

Dwayne Richard Hipp

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2015

2017

2000

2017

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions in Python

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

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

via file-system locks

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

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

News

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23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

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13 June 2023

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