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DBMS > CockroachDB vs. dBASE vs. Spark SQL vs. TempoIQ vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. dBASE vs. Spark SQL vs. TempoIQ vs. XTDB

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionCockroachDB 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.dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score9.70
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comwww.dbase.comspark.apache.org/­sqltempoiq.com (offline)github.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docswww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasespark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCockroach LabsAsthon TateApache Software FoundationTempoIQJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20151979201420122019
Current release24.1.0, May 2024dBASE 2019, 20193.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageGoScalaClojure
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
DOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemedynamic schemayesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBCnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
dBase proprietary IDEJava
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.nonono
Triggersnononoyes infoRealtime Alertsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTnoneyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTnonenoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and rolesnosimple authentication-based access control

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