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DBMS > CrateDB vs. Dgraph vs. HEAVY.AI vs. KeyDB vs. Oracle Coherence

System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Dgraph vs. HEAVY.AI vs. KeyDB vs. Oracle Coherence

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsOracles in-memory data grid solution
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score1.92
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Websitecratedb.comdgraph.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
www.oracle.com/­java/­coherence
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsdgraph.io/­docsdocs.heavy.aidocs.keydb.devdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherence
DeveloperCrateDgraph Labs, Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.Oracle
Initial release20132016201620192007
Current release5.10, January 202214.1, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoBSD-3commercial
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 languageJavaGoC++ and CUDAC++Java
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoJCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.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++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)nonoLuano
Triggersnonononoyes infoLive Events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, with selectable consistency level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyACIDnoOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes infooptionally
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsno infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control and ACLauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication
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CrateDBDgraphHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022KeyDBOracle Coherence
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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