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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. Speedb 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.

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.17
Rank	#65	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#337	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores

Score	1.13
Rank	#171	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Website

www.cockroachlabs.com

www.speedb.io

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

Technical documentation

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

Cockroach Labs

Speedb

Oracle

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

Initial release

2015

2020

1998

Current release

24.1.0, May 2024

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

Triggers

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

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

yes

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

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