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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. OpenQM vs. Snowflake vs. Warp 10

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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.

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

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Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.snowflake.com

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Snowflake Computing Inc.

SenX

Initial release

2015

1993

2014

2015

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

with some exceptions

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

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

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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