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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. CrateDB

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Distributed Database based on Lucene

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
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Score	0.81
Rank	#255	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#118	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#234	Overall
	#35	Document stores
	#17	Time Series DBMS

Website

alasql.org

crate.io

Technical documentation

github.com/agershun/alasql

crate.io/-docs

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Crate

Initial release

2014

2013

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

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

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

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Specific characteristics

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Conferences and events

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CrateDB Workshop – Hands-on learning experience that introduces the fundamental concepts of CrateDB through 4 modules!
Online Workshop, 2:00 pm CEST, 28 June 2023

Finished events

Mastering Event Monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana with CrateDB Cloud
Virtual Live Demo, 3:00 pm - 3:45 pm CET, 31 May 2023 (finished)

Recent citations in the news

NoSQL in the Enterprise
21 April 2010, InfoQ.com

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1 March 2023, Business Wire

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15 April 2021, GlobeNewswire

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16 May 2017, Business Wire

Crate.io raises $10M to grow its database platform
15 June 2021, VentureBeat

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14 December 2016, Datanami

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