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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. CrateDB vs. HBase vs. QuestDB vs. STSdb

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Distributed Database based on LuceneWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Wide column storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitebasex.orgcratedb.comhbase.apache.orgquestdb.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgcratedb.com/­docshbase.apache.org/­book.htmlquestdb.io/­docs
DeveloperBaseX GmbHCrateApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetQuestDB Technology IncSTS Soft SC
Initial release20072013200820142011
Current release10.7, August 20232.3.4, January 20214.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaJava (Zero-GC), C++, RustC#
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free, schema definition possibleyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnonono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynoSQL with time-series extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.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++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functions (Javascript)yes infoCoprocessors in Javanono
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with eventual consistencynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerno infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategySingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID for single-table writesno
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.noyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsrights management via user accountsAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACno
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BaseXCrateDBHBaseQuestDBSTSdb
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Banks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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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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