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DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. CrateDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Pinecone vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. CrateDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Pinecone vs. Sphinx

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NameAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksDistributed Database based on LuceneExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA managed, cloud-native vector databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Object oriented DBMSVector DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.71
Rank#227  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websiteatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorycratedb.comobjectbox.iowww.pinecone.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsdocs.objectbox.iodocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAtos Convergence CreatorsCrateObjectBox LimitedPinecone Systems, IncSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20162013201720192001
Current release17033.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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 languageJavaJavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyesyesString, Number, Booleanno
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsLDAPADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesAll languages with LDAP bindings.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++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
PythonC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions (Javascript)nono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infocell divisionShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelonline/offline synchronization between client and servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of specific operationsno infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlLDAP bind authenticationrights management via user accountsyesno
More information provided by the system vendor
Atos Standard Common RepositoryCrateDBObjectBoxPineconeSphinx
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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