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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. EJDB vs. Hypertable vs. InfluxDB vs. KairosDB

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonHypertable  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as HadoopDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score0.73
Rank#229  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.30
Rank#294  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score26.56
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Websitecratedb.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdb
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbkairosdb.github.io
DeveloperCrateSoftmotionsHypertable Inc.
Initial release20132012200920132013
Current release0.9.8.11, March 20162.7.6, April 20241.2.2, November 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoGNU version 3. Commercial license availableOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++GoJava
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportserver-lessLinux
OS X
Windows infoan inofficial Windows port is available
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idnoNumeric data and Stringsyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnorestricted infoonly exact value or prefix value scansnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared libraryC++ API
Thrift
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet 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
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)nononono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelnoneselectable replication factor on file system levelselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
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
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenonono
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 strategynononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes
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 infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsnonosimple rights management via user accountssimple password-based access control
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CrateDBEJDBHypertableInfluxDBKairosDB
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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