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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Dgraph vs. NuoDB vs. Pinecone vs. PostGIS

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsA managed, cloud-native vector databaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.71
Rank#227  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#10  Vector DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitecratedb.comdgraph.iowww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.pinecone.iopostgis.net
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsdgraph.io/­docsdoc.nuodb.comdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperCrateDgraph Labs, Inc.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20132016201320192005
Current release3.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGoC++C
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynoyesnoyes
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
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
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
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)noJava, SQLuser defined functions
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelSynchronous replication via Raftyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDByes infobased on PostgreSQL
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 ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes
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 strategyACIDACID infotunable commit protocolACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
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.noyes infoTemporary tablenono
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsno infoPlanned for future releasesStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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