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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. CrateDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. GeoMesa

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

Distributed Database based on Lucene

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.69
Rank	#226	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#11	Vector DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#131	Overall
	#61	Relational DBMS

Score	0.78
Rank	#214	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

cratedb.com/docs

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

Developer

Crate

EnterpriseDB

CCRi and others

Initial release

2015

2013

2005

2014

Current release

5.8.1, August 2024

14, December 2021

5.0.1, July 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes

standard with numerous extensions

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
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
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

depending on storage layer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

Multi-source replication

depending on storage layer

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

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