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System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. CrateDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Snowflake

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NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonDistributed Database based on LuceneDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.57
Rank#51  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#227  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroracratedb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbwww.snowflake.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlcratedb.com/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperAmazonCrateIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014PerconaSnowflake Computing Inc.
Initial release20152013201020152014
Current release3.4.10-2.10, November 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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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 languageJavaErlangC++
Server operating systemshostedAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supporthostedLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.yesnononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynonoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIproprietary protocol using JSONCLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.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
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions (Javascript)View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptJavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersyesnoyesnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resources
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingShardingShardingyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
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 strategyno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes infovia In-Memory Engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication
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Amazon AuroraCrateDBIBM CloudantPercona Server for MongoDBSnowflake
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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