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System Properties Comparison CockroachDB vs. CrateDB vs. Linter vs. RethinkDB vs. Riak TS

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NameCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
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 LuceneRDBMS for high security requirementsDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Trend Chart
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
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.cockroachlabs.comcratedb.comlinter.rurethinkdb.com
Technical documentationwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docscratedb.com/­docsrethinkdb.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperCockroach LabsCraterelex.ruThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20152013199020092015
Current release23.1.1, May 20232.4.1, August 20203.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source
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 languageGoJavaC and C++C++Erlang
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemedynamic schemaFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyesnoyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
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
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions (Javascript)yes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLErlang
TriggersnonoyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
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 RAFTShardingnoneSharding inforange basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using RAFTConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono infolinks between datasets can be stored
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 strategyACIDAtomic single-document operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoMVCC basedyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissionsno
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CockroachDBCrateDBLinterRethinkDBRiak TS
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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