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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. gStore vs. ObjectBox

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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.

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.40
Rank	#65	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#371	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	1.09
Rank	#172	Overall
	#7	Object oriented DBMS
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

en.gstore.cn

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Cockroach Labs

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2015

2016

2017

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

1.2, November 2023

4.0 (May 2024)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like 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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

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

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

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

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

yes

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