DB-EnginesExtremeDB: mitigate connectivity issues in a DBMSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Amazon Aurora vs. CrateDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. TDengine vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Amazon Aurora vs. CrateDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. TDengine vs. TerarkDB

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameAmazon Aurora  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMySQL and PostgreSQL compatible cloud service by AmazonDistributed Database based on LuceneBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresTime Series DBMS and big data platformA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.91
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­rds/­auroracratedb.comwww.postgres-xl.orggithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­AmazonRDS/­latest/­AuroraUserGuide/­CHAP_Aurora.htmlcratedb.com/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.tdengine.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperAmazonCrateTDEngine, previously Taos DataByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release201520132014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20192016
Current release10 R1, October 20183.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availablecommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
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 languageJavaCCC++
Server operating systemshostedAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinux
macOS
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.yesnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyes infodistributed, parallel query executionStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
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
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions (Javascript)user defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnoyesyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
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 strategyACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesno
More information provided by the system vendor
Amazon AuroraCrateDBPostgres-XLTDengineTerarkDB
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
» more
TDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
» more
Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
» more
High Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
» more
Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
» more
TDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
» more
Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
» more
Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
» more
TDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
» more
TDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
» more
News

Seamless Data Integration from MQTT and InfluxDB to TDengine
22 May 2024

Solving Long Query Performance Bottlenecks
22 May 2024

What Is Predictive Maintenance?
17 May 2024

Can Typical Time-Series Databases Replace Data Historians?
8 May 2024

TDengine 3.3.0.0 Release Notes
7 May 2024

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Amazon AuroraCrateDBPostgres-XLTDengineTerarkDB
DB-Engines blog posts

Cloud-based DBMS's popularity grows at high rates
12 December 2019, Paul Andlinger

The popularity of cloud-based DBMSs has increased tenfold in four years
7 February 2017, Matthias Gelbmann

Amazon - the rising star in the DBMS market
3 August 2015, Matthias Gelbmann

show all

Recent citations in the news

How LeadSquared accelerated chatbot deployments with generative AI using Amazon Bedrock and Amazon Aurora ...
24 May 2024, AWS Blog

Continuously replicate Amazon DynamoDB changes to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL using AWS Lambda | Amazon ...
14 May 2024, AWS Blog

Join the preview of Amazon Aurora Limitless Database | Amazon Web Services
27 November 2023, AWS Blog

Executive Conversations: Putting generative AI to work in omnichannel customer service with Prashanth Singh, Chief ...
24 May 2024, AWS Blog

Amazon Aurora MySQL version 2 (with MySQL 5.7 compatibility) to version 3 (with MySQL 8.0 compatibility) upgrade ...
18 March 2024, AWS Blog

provided by Google News

CrateDB Announces Availability of CrateDB on Google Cloud Marketplace
8 April 2024, Datanami

CrateDB Partners with HiveMQ to Deliver a Seamless Data Management Architecture for IoT
25 March 2024, PR Newswire

CrateDB Appoints Sergey Gerasimenko as New CTO
20 February 2024, CIO News

How We Designed CrateDB as a Realtime SQL DBMS for the Internet of Things
29 August 2017, The New Stack

Crate.io Introduces CrateDB 2.0 Enterprise and Open Source Editions
16 May 2017, Business Wire

provided by Google News

TDengine named Top Global Industrial Data Management Solution
4 January 2024, IT Brief Australia

TDengine debuts cloud-based time-series data processing platform for IoT deployments
20 September 2022, SiliconANGLE News

New TDengine Benchmark Results Show Up to 37.0x Higher Query Performance Than InfluxDB and TimescaleDB
28 February 2023, Yahoo Finance

Comparing Different Time-Series Databases
10 February 2022, hackernoon.com

MindsDB is now the leading and fastest growing applied ML platform in the world India - English
3 November 2022, PR Newswire

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

AllegroGraph logo

Graph Database Leader for AI Knowledge Graph Applications - The Most Secure Graph Database Available.
Free Download

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Present your product here