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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. PouchDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Transbase 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.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

pouchdb.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

pouchdb.com/guides

help.sap.com/hana

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Apache Software Foundation

SAP

Transaction Software GmbH

SenX

Initial release

2015

2012

2010

1987

2015

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

7.1.1, June 2019

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

commercial

free development license

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Appliance or cloud-service

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

SQLScript, R

yes

WarpScript

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

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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