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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. LevelDB vs. RDF4J vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

Distributed Date Store based on Lucene

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Event Store

Key-value store

RDF store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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

Score	0.75
Rank	#197	Overall
	#100	Relational DBMS
	#12	Search engines

Score	0.76
Rank	#195	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	2.76
Rank	#98	Overall
	#18	Key-value stores

Score	0.54
Rank	#225	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.38
Rank	#254	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#117	Relational DBMS

Website

crate.io

www.eventstore.com

github.com/google/leveldb

rdf4j.org

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

crate.io/docs

developers.eventstore.com

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/master/doc/index.md

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

Crate

Event Store Limited

Google

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2012

2011

2004

2013

Current release

20.6.1, October 2020

1.23 , February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Event Store Cloud allows you to deploy a managed EventStoreDB cluster in AWS, GCP and Azure (coming soon).

Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java 7 (and higher) VM

Linux
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, but no triggers and constraints

SQL-like query language

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
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

proprietary protocol using JSON

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

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

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

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Read Your Own Writes Consistency

for primary key lookups

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

simple password-based access control

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Specific characteristics

CrateDB is an open source distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing...
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Guaranteed writes Great performance that scales Immutable data store High availability...
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Competitive advantages

CrateDB is typically used in operational analytics applications, particularly those...
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EventStoreDB's core database server is used in production systems worldwide. The...
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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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Event-sourced systems Event-driven architecture
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Key customers

CrateDB customers include McAfee, Qualtrics , Nokia, NBC Golfnow , Digital Domain...
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EventStoreDB is used by companies across a whole range of industries. Here are just...
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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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Available as open-source software and licensed under the 3-clause BSD license ( https://github.com/EventStore/EventStore/blob/master/LICENSE.md...
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