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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Amazon CloudSearch vs. CrateDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. OrigoDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDistributed Database based on LuceneCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A fully ACID in-memory object graph database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Websitealtibase.comaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchcratedb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseorigodb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchcratedb.com/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseorigodb.com/­docs
DeveloperAltibaseAmazonCrateGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Robert Friberg et al
Initial release19992012201320122009 infounder the name LiveDB
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023commercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyesno
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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 languageC++JavaC#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
hostedAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supporthostedLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collections
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.nononono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92noyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Supported programming languagesC
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
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnouser defined functions (Javascript)limited functionality with using 'rules'yes
TriggersyesnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoDomain Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronized
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Eventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononodepending on model
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 strategyyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoWrite ahead log
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentication via encrypted signaturesrights management via user accountsyes, based on authentication and database rulesRole based authorization
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AltibaseAmazon CloudSearchCrateDBFirebase Realtime DatabaseOrigoDB
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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