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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Ehcache vs. GeoMesa vs. Heroic vs. Tarantool

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
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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
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Websitecratedb.comwww.ehcache.orgwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docswww.ehcache.org/­documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
DeveloperCrateTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGCCRi and othersSpotifyVK
Initial release20132009201420142008
Current release3.10.0, March 20224.0.5, February 20242.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
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 languageJavaJavaScalaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportAll OS with a Java VMBSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesschema-freeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynononoFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
JCacheHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Open binary 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
JavaC
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)nononoLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersnonoyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta Serverdepending on storage layerShardingSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelyes infoby using Terracotta Serverdepending on storage layeryesAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)depending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
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 strategyyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourcenonoACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesdepending on storage layernoyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsnoyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
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CrateDBEhcacheGeoMesaHeroicTarantool
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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