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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. DuckDB vs. FileMaker vs. Quasardb vs. Riak TS

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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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
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitecratedb.comduckdb.orgwww.claris.com/­filemakerquasar.ai
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsduckdb.org/­docswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperCrateClaris infoa subsidiary of ApplequasardbOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20132018198320092015
Current release0.10, February 202419.4.1, November 20213.14.1, January 20243.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source
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 languageJavaC++C++Erlang
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportserver-lessiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binaryno
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 infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infowith tagsrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyesyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query languageyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
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# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
PHP.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)noyesnoErlang
Triggersnonoyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelnoneSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono infolinks between datasets can be stored
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 strategyACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno
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CrateDBDuckDBFileMakerQuasardbRiak TS
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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