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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Dolt vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. Sphinx

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolt  Xexclude from comparisonFujitsu Enterprise Postgres  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaEnterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#193  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#285  Overall
#129  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitecratedb.comgithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
www.postgresql.fastware.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsdocs.dolthub.comwww.postgresql.fastware.com/­product-manualssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperCrateDoltHub IncPostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software TechnologySphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release201320182001
Current releaseFujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 20223.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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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 languageJavaGoCC++
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyesyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
HTTP REST
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Proprietary protocol
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
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)yes infocurrently in alpha releaseuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonepartitioning by range, list and by hashSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
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 strategyACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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CrateDBDoltFujitsu Enterprise PostgresSphinx
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Built-in TDE and Data Masking security. In-Memory Columnar Index, and a high speed...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Transactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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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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Over 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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Core based licensing
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