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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. CrateDB vs. Hive vs. Titan vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.Distributed Database based on Lucenedata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score6.15
Rank#55  Overall
#33  Relational DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score1.32
Rank#162  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comcratedb.comhive.apache.orggithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titanvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docscratedb.com/­docscwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homegithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wikidocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperCockroach LabsCrateApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookAurelius, owned by DataStaxVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20152013201220122018
Current release23.1.1, May 20233.1.3, April 2022v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache license, version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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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 languageGoJavaJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemedynamic schemaFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitySQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
.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++
Java
PHP
Python
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions (Javascript)yes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTShardingShardingyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelselectable replication factoryesSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engineno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategynoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcastyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlrights management via user accountsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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CockroachDBCrateDBHiveTitanVictoriaMetrics
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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