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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Dragonfly vs. Greenplum vs. jBASE vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument 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
Score0.41
Rank#266  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#159  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.32
Rank#162  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Websitecratedb.comgithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
greenplum.orgwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbasevictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docswww.dragonflydb.io/­docsdocs.greenplum.orgdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperCrateDragonflyDB team and community contributorsPivotal Software Inc.Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)VictoriaMetrics
Initial release20132023200519912018
Current release1.0, March 20237.0.0, September 20235.7v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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 languageJavaC++Go
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinuxLinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)scheme-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesstrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesoptional
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.nonoyes infosince Version 4.2yesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynoyesEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
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#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)Luayesyesno
Triggersnopublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyesSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
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 strategyAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, strict serializability by the serveryesyesyes
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.noyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsPassword-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item level
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CrateDBDragonflyGreenplumjBASEVictoriaMetrics
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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