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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. IRONdb vs. Riak TS

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Distributed Database based on Lucene

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.69
Rank	#226	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#11	Vector DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#370	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

cratedb.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

Technical documentation

cratedb.com/docs

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Crate

FairCom Corporation

Circonus LLC.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2013

1979

2017

2015

Current release

5.8.1, August 2024

V3, October 2020

V0.10.20, January 2018

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes

ANSI SQL queries

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

ADO.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

HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes, in Lua

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

when using SQL

links between datasets can be stored

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

across SQL and NoSQL

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

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