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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. DataFS vs. Ingres

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Name

Description

Distributed Database based on Lucene

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Well established RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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Score	0.71
Rank	#227	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#10	Vector DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Website

cratedb.com

newdatabase.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

Technical documentation

cratedb.com/docs

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

docs.actian.com/ingres

Developer

Crate

Mobiland AG

Actian Corporation

Initial release

2013

2018

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

11.2, May 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

Supported programming languages

.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#
C++
VB.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

yes

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Proprietary Sharding system

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

Ingres Replicator

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Immediate Consistency

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

MVCC

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.

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

Windows-Profile

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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