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DBMS > CrateDB vs. FatDB vs. Galaxybase vs. InfluxDB vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. FatDB vs. Galaxybase vs. InfluxDB vs. Spark SQL

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  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 LuceneA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Graph DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Websitecratedb.comgalaxybase.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewspark.apache.org/­sql
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.html
DeveloperCrateFatCloudChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Apache Software Foundation
Initial release20132012201720132014
Current releaseNov 20, November 20212.7.6, April 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
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 languageJavaC#C and JavaGoScala
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportWindowsLinuxLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeStrong typed schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServernoSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statements
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
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#Go
Java
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)yes infovia applicationsuser defined procedures and functionsnono
Triggersnoyes infovia applicationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyyes, utilizing Spark Core
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
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 strategynoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes infoDepending on used storage engineno
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsRole-based access controlsimple rights management via user accountsno
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CrateDBFatDBGalaxybaseInfluxDBSpark SQL
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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