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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. CrateDB vs. HBase vs. JaguarDB vs. Riak KV

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsDistributed Database based on LuceneWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTablePerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsDistributed, fault tolerant key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Wide column storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score17.94
Rank#34  Overall
#21  Relational DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftcratedb.comhbase.apache.orgwww.jaguardb.com
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftcratedb.com/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)CrateApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetDataJaguar, Inc.OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20122013200820152009
Current release2.3.4, January 20213.3 July 20233.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise edition
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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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 languageCJavaJavaC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesErlang
Server operating systemshostedAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
LinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesnoyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC.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
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonuser defined functions (Javascript)yes infoCoprocessors in JavanoErlang
Triggersnonoyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnononono infolinks between data sets can be stored
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 strategySingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nono
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.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACrights management via user accountsyes, using Riak Security
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Amazon RedshiftCrateDBHBaseJaguarDBRiak KV
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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