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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Citus vs. CrateDB vs. Faircom DB vs. LMDB

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLDistributed Database based on LuceneNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#227  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#304  Overall
#43  Key-value stores
#136  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Websitebasex.orgwww.citusdata.comcratedb.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdb
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.citusdata.comcratedb.com/­docsdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlwww.lmdb.tech/­doc
DeveloperBaseX GmbHCrateFairCom CorporationSymas
Initial release20072010201319792011
Current release10.7, August 20238.1, December 2018V12, November 20200.9.32, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version 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 languageJavaCJavaANSI C, C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Linux
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures
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.yes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.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
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functions (Javascript)yes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++no
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).none
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
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDno infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategytunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesno
More information provided by the system vendor
BaseXCitusCrateDBFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACELMDB
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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