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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. CrateDB vs. Hive vs. Memgraph vs. TimescaleDB

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSDistributed Database based on Lucenedata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitealtibase.comcratedb.comhive.apache.orgmemgraph.comwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualscratedb.com/­docscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homememgraph.com/­docsdocs.timescale.com
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperAltibaseCrateApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookMemgraph LtdTimescale
Initial release19992013201220172017
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.1.3, April 20222.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC and C++C
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportAll OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free and schema-optionalyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitySQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
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
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functions (Javascript)yes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infodynamic graph partitioningyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelselectable replication factorMulti-source replication using RAFTSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes inforelationships in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategynoACID infowith snapshot isolationACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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AltibaseCrateDBHiveMemgraphTimescaleDB
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Memgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Business Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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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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