DBMS > Axibase vs. CrateDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. SAP HANA vs. Warp 10

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. CrateDB vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. SAP HANA vs. Warp 10

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Distributed Database based on Lucene

Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud Platform

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.73
Rank	#224	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	4.47
Rank	#76	Overall
	#12	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#349	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

cratedb.com

cloud.google.com/datastore

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.warp10.io

Technical documentation

cratedb.com/docs

cloud.google.com/datastore/docs

help.sap.com/hana

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Crate

Google

SAP

SenX

Initial release

2013

2008

2010

2015

Current release

15585

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Database 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 language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

yes, details here

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

SQL-like query language (GQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions (Javascript)

using Google App Engine

SQLScript, R

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Callbacks using the Google Apps Engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

Multi-source replication using Paxos

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

using Google Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration

Strong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

via ReferenceProperties or Ancestor paths

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

ACID

Serializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of Transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Response time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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