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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. OceanBase vs. searchxml

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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 distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQL

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#147	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

en.oceanbase.com

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

en.oceanbase.com/docs/oceanbase-database

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

Cockroach Labs

OceanBase

previously Alibaba and Ant Group

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2015

2010

2015

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

4.3.0, April 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

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

Ada

in MySQL-compatible model
C

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D

in MySQL-compatible model
Delphi

in MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel

in MySQL-compatible model
Erlang

in MySQL-compatible model
Haskell

in MySQL-compatible model
Java

in Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js)

in MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C

in MySQL-compatible model
OCaml

in MySQL-compatible model
Perl

in MySQL-compatible model
PHP

in MySQL-compatible model
Python

in MySQL-compatible model
Ruby

in MySQL-compatible model
Scheme

in MySQL-compatible model
Tcl

in MySQL-compatible model

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible mode

yes

on the application server

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 (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

multiple readers, single writer

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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