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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SiriDB vs. TimesTen

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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.

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Open Source Time Series DBMS

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	6.15
Rank	#55	Overall
	#33	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

siridb.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

docs.siridb.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Cockroach Labs

SAP

formerly Sybase

Cesbit

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2015

1992

2017

1998

Current release

23.1.1, May 2023

17, July 2015

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

dynamic schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

PL/SQL

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

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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