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DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. CrateDB vs. Heroic vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. CrateDB vs. Heroic vs. PouchDB

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NameCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionIn-memory caching systemDistributed Database based on LuceneTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitecachelot.iocratedb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicpouchdb.com
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperCrateSpotifyApache Software Foundation
Initial release2015201320142012
Current release7.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesno
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
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynono
APIs and other access methodsMemcached protocolADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
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
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions (Javascript)noView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelyesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
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 strategynono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnorights management via user accountsno
More information provided by the system vendor
Cachelot.ioCrateDBHeroicPouchDB
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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