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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. CrateDB vs. Geode

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Distributed Database based on Lucene

Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processes

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.83
Rank	#203	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#223	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#17	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#15	Vector DBMS

Score	1.35
Rank	#154	Overall
	#25	Key-value stores

Website

altibase.com

cratedb.com

geode.apache.org

Technical documentation

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

cratedb.com/docs

geode.apache.org/docs

Developer

Altibase

Crate

Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.

Initial release

1999

2013

2002

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

5.8.1, August 2024

1.1, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfire

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

All OS with a Java VM

the JDK (8 or later) is also required

Data scheme

yes

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

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

ANSI SQL-92

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

SQL-like query language (OQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

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

Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

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

.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

user defined functions (Javascript)

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

yes, on a single node

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

rights management via user accounts

Access rights per client and object definable

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