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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. CrateDB vs. MySQL vs. Rockset vs. SpatiaLite

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsDistributed Database based on LuceneWidely used open source RDBMSA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
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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
Score1083.74
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftcratedb.comwww.mysql.comrockset.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftcratedb.com/­docsdev.mysql.com/­docdocs.rockset.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)CrateOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunRocksetAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20122013199520192008
Current release8.4.0, April 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availablecommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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.Aiven for MySQL: Fully managed MySQL, deployable in the cloud of your choice, with seamless integrations and lightning-fast setup.
Implementation languageCJavaC and C++C++C++
Server operating systemshostedAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedserver-less
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesdynamic typingyes
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.nonoyesno infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesrestrictedyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyes infowith proprietary extensionsRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
HTTP REST
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
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonuser defined functions (Javascript)yes infoproprietary syntaxnono
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyes
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 infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno
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Amazon RedshiftCrateDBMySQLRocksetSpatiaLite
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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