BigCache VS cockroach

Compare BigCache vs cockroach and see what are their differences.

cockroach

CockroachDB - the open source, cloud-native distributed SQL database. (by cockroachdb)
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BigCache cockroach
1 100
7,192 29,076
1.5% 1.2%
6.3 10.0
about 2 months ago 3 days ago
Go Go
Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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BigCache

Posts with mentions or reviews of BigCache. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-29.
  • Recommendation for Key/Value storage
    9 projects | /r/golang | 29 Dec 2021
    There are also different packages used as a wrapper on top of the Go map based on what your requirements are (storing a lot of data) https://github.com/allegro/bigcache or (need performance) https://github.com/dgraph-io/ristretto. For basic use-cases, the standard Go map should be enough. Just keep in mind whether you need concurrent access to your data structure, in which case you should guard your map with a mutex .

cockroach

Posts with mentions or reviews of cockroach. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-11.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing BigCache and cockroach you can also consider the following projects:

go-cache - An in-memory key:value store/cache (similar to Memcached) library for Go, suitable for single-machine applications.

vitess - Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.

groupcache - groupcache is a caching and cache-filling library, intended as a replacement for memcached in many cases.

neon - Neon: Serverless Postgres. We separated storage and compute to offer autoscaling, branching, and bottomless storage.

ristretto - A high performance memory-bound Go cache

tidb - TiDB is an open-source, cloud-native, distributed, MySQL-Compatible database for elastic scale and real-time analytics. Try AI-powered Chat2Query free at : https://tidbcloud.com/free-trial

badger - Fast key-value DB in Go.

Trino - Official repository of Trino, the distributed SQL query engine for big data, formerly known as PrestoSQL (https://trino.io)

GCache - An in-memory cache library for golang. It supports multiple eviction policies: LRU, LFU, ARC

yugabyte-db - YugabyteDB - the cloud native distributed SQL database for mission-critical applications.

fastcache - Fast thread-safe inmemory cache for big number of entries in Go. Minimizes GC overhead

InfluxDB - Scalable datastore for metrics, events, and real-time analytics