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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. CrateDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Galaxybase vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Distributed Database based on Lucene

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#226	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#11	Vector DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

cratedb.com/docs

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Altibase

Crate

Esgyn

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1999

2013

2015

2017

2019

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

5.8.1, August 2024

Nov 20, November 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++, Java

C and Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

Strong typed schema

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

ANSI SQL-92

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Go
Java
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions (Javascript)

Java Stored Procedures

user defined procedures and functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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