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DBMS > CrateDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. mSQL vs. openGauss

System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. mSQL vs. openGauss

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by Huawei
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#183  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Websitecratedb.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlgitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmldocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
DeveloperCrateFairCom CorporationFatCloudHughes TechnologiesHuawei and openGauss community
Initial release20131979201219942019
Current releaseV3, October 20204.4, October 20213.0, March 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source
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 languageJavaANSI C, C++C#CC, C++, Java
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
WindowsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyes infoANSI SQL queriesno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersANSI SQL 2011
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
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
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C#C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)yes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes infovia applicationsnoyes
Triggersnoyesyes infovia applicationsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsselectable replication factornoneSource-replica replication
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 Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infowhen using SQLnonoyes
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 strategyACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesnoyes
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.no infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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CrateDBFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEFatDBmSQL infoMini SQLopenGauss
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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