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System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. CrateDB vs. Kdb vs. OceanBase vs. Riak TS

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NameArcadeDB  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewrittenDistributed Database based on LuceneHigh performance Time Series DBMSA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS infoin next version
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.10
Rank#358  Overall
#48  Document stores
#38  Graph DBMS
#52  Key-value stores
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#227  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score1.57
Rank#149  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitearcadedb.comcratedb.comkx.comen.oceanbase.com
Technical documentationdocs.arcadedb.comcratedb.com/­docscode.kx.comen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasewww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperArcade DataCrateKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release202120132000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200320102015
Current releaseSeptember 20213.6, May 20184.3.0, April 20243.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Sourcecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infoCommercial license availableOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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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 languageJavaJavaqC++Erlang
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible 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.nonoyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language, no joinsyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitySQL-like query language (q)yesyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesJava.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++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
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 (Javascript)user defined functionsPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modeErlang
Triggersnoyes infowith viewsyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using Paxosselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationship in graphsnoyesyesno infolinks between datasets 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 strategynoACIDno
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsrights management via user accountsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno
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ArcadeDBCrateDBKdbOceanBaseRiak TS
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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