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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. CrateDB vs. Fauna vs. Ingres vs. TinkerGraph

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraDistributed Database based on LuceneFauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.Well established RDBMSA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iocratedb.comfauna.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingrestinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikicratedb.com/­docsdocs.fauna.comdocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperRackspaceCrateFauna, Inc.Actian Corporation
Initial release2013201320141974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2009
Current release11.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScalaCJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supporthostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemepredefined schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.nononono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynoyesno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.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#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions (Javascript)user defined functionsyesno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandraShardinghorizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelMulti-source replicationIngres Replicatornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCCno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnorights management via user accountsIdentity management, authentication, and access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
BluefloodCrateDBFauna infopreviously named FaunaDBIngresTinkerGraph
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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