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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. CrateDB vs. NuoDB vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Distributed Database based on Lucene

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.73
Rank	#229	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	0.99
Rank	#195	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	3.27
Rank	#96	Overall
	#50	Relational DBMS

Website

alasql.org

cratedb.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

cratedb.com/docs

doc.nuodb.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Crate

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2014

2013

1994

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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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 language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial 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

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

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
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

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

The enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Competitive advantages

Response time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Across all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Market metrics

The CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Licensing and pricing models

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