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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. EJDB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Riak TS vs. Yanza

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.71
Rank#227  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitecratedb.comgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsyanza.com
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperCrateSoftmotionsMicrosoftOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesYanza
Initial release20132012201620152015
Current release3.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Sourcecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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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 languageJavaCC++Erlang
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportserver-lesshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesnono
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynoyesyes, limitedno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
in-process shared libraryADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
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
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
PHP
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
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)noTransact SQLErlangno
Triggersnononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelnoneyesselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsno infolinks between datasets can be storedno
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 strategynoACIDnono
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.no
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsnoyesnono
More information provided by the system vendor
CrateDBEJDBMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseRiak TSYanza
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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