DBMS > CockroachDB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SQLite vs. Tibero

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Riak KV vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SQLite vs. Tibero

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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.

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

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Score	5.73
Rank	#58	Overall
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Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

www.sqlite.org

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

Developer

Cockroach Labs

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Sybase, SAP

Dwayne Richard Hipp

TmaxSoft

Initial release

2015

2009

1993

2000

2003

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

Supported programming languages

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

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

no "single point of failure"

none

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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