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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Altibase vs. CrateDB vs. jBASE vs. TDengine

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSDistributed Database based on LuceneA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Multivalue DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgaltibase.comcratedb.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasegithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualscratedb.com/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.tdengine.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffAltibaseCrateRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)TDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20141999201319912019
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20235.73.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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CrateDB Cloud: a distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing across an elastic cluster of shared nothing nodes. CrateDB Cloud enables data insights at scale on Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform.
Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaC
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesoptionalyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.ANSI SQL-92yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C++
Java
.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
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnostored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functions (Javascript)yesno
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDno 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 persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelyes
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AlaSQLAltibaseCrateDBjBASETDengine
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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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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TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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