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DBMS > 4D vs. Apache Druid vs. CrateDB vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison 4D vs. Apache Druid vs. CrateDB vs. SpatiaLite

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Name4D infoformer name: 4th Dimension  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionApplication development environment with integrated database management systemOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataDistributed Database based on LuceneSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.68
Rank#110  Overall
#54  Relational DBMS
Score3.29
Rank#95  Overall
#49  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#229  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.4d.comdruid.apache.orgcratedb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdeveloper.4d.comdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designcratedb.com/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
Developer4D, IncApache Software Foundation and contributorsCrateAlessandro Furieri
Initial release1984201220132008
Current releasev20, April 202329.0.1, April 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open SourceOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsOS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportserver-less
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-less columns are supportedFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL for queryingyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyes
APIs and other access methodsODBC
RESTful HTTP API infoby using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages4D proprietary IDE
PHP
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions (Javascript)no
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers and groupsRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemrights management via user accountsno
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4D infoformer name: 4th DimensionApache DruidCrateDBSpatiaLite
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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