DBMS > CrateDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Infobright vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. Infobright vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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Name

Description

Distributed Date Store based on Lucene

A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene

Elasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.97
Rank	#178	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS
	#13	Search engines

Score	157.69
Rank	#8	Overall
	#1	Search engines

Score	1.02
Rank	#173	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#119	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#23	Key-value stores
	#2	Object oriented DBMS
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	85.33
Rank	#15	Overall
	#10	Relational DBMS

Website

crate.io

www.elastic.co/elasticsearch

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/sql-database

Technical documentation

crate.io/docs

www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/index.html

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

Developer

Crate

Elastic

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

InterSystems

Microsoft

Initial release

2013

2010

2005

2018

2010

Current release

7.8.0, June 2020

2021.1, June 2021

V12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Elastic License

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java 7 (and higher) VM

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

depending on used data model

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, but no triggers and constraints

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET

community maintained client
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

Source-replica replication

yes, with always 3 replicas available

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

ES-Hadoop Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Read Your Own Writes Consistency

for primary key lookups

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

Memcached and Redis integration

yes

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

CrateDB is an open source distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing...
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Competitive advantages

CrateDB is typically used in operational analytics applications, particularly those...
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Typical application scenarios

CrateDB is ideal for integrating and analyzing streams of data--often machine-generated--in...
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Key customers

CrateDB customers include McAfee, Qualtrics , Nokia, NBC Golfnow , Digital Domain...
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Market metrics

The CrateDB open source project was started in 2014. CrateDB was the winner of TechCrunch...
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Licensing and pricing models

CrateDB pricing CrateDB Community Edition is open source and free to use under the...
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