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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. CrateDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. RDFox vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. CrateDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. RDFox vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDistributed Database based on LuceneFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.71
Rank#227  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#362  Overall
#53  Key-value stores
#155  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comcratedb.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.oxfordsemantic.techwww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcratedb.com/­docsdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmldocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperCrateFairCom CorporationOxford Semantic TechnologiesSybase, SAP
Initial release20162013197920171993
Current releaseV3, October 20206.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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 languagePythonJavaANSI C, C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes infoRDF schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyes infoANSI SQL queriesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
.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++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C
Java
Delphi
Perl
PHP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)yes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsreplication via a shared file systemMulti-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infowhen using SQLyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configured
User concepts infoAccess controlyesrights management via user accountsFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Roles, resources, and access typesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
BigchainDBCrateDBFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGERDFoxSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS
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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