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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. CrateDB vs. jBASE vs. SwayDB vs. VoltDB

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryDistributed Database based on LuceneA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Multivalue DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  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
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitealasql.orgcratedb.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseswaydb.simer.auwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlcratedb.com/­docsdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.voltdb.com
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffCrateRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Simer PlahaVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20142013199120182010
Current release5.711.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaScalaJava, C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesoptionalnoyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.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
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions (Javascript)yesnoJava
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelyesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageno infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyACIDAtomic execution of operationsACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnorights management via user accountsAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures
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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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