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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. RethinkDB vs. SiriDB vs. SwayDB

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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.

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Open Source Time Series DBMS

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	6.10
Rank	#58	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	2.84
Rank	#106	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#346	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#373	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

rethinkdb.com

siridb.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

rethinkdb.com/docs

docs.siridb.com

Developer

Cockroach Labs

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Cesbit

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2015

2009

2017

2018

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

yes

Numeric data

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

Supported programming languages

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

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

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

range based

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

Atomic single-document operations

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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

yes

users and table-level permissions

simple rights management via user accounts

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