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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Oracle Coherence vs. RocksDB vs. TerminusDB

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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.

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Rank	#58	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	1.97
Rank	#129	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

rocksdb.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Oracle

Facebook, Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2007

2013

2018

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

14.1, August 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

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

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

configurable

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

in-memory journaling

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

Role-based access control

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