DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > CrateDB vs. etcd vs. FileMaker vs. Graphite vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. etcd vs. FileMaker vs. Graphite vs. Riak TS

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneA distributed reliable key-value storeFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.73
Rank#229  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score7.64
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score49.73
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#75  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#308  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Websitecratedb.cometcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-web
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
www.claris.com/­resources/­documentationgraphite.readthedocs.iowww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperCrateClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleChris DavisOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2013198320062015
Current release3.4, August 201919.4.1, November 20213.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
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 languageJavaGoPythonErlang
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Linux
OS X
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesNumeric data onlyno
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.nonoyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynoyes infovia pluginsnoyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC
JSON over HTTP
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
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
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
PHPJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)noyesnoErlang
Triggersnoyes, watching key changesyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Source-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14noneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono infolinks between datasets can be stored
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 strategynononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infolockingyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnono
More information provided by the system vendor
CrateDBetcdFileMakerGraphiteRiak TS
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
» more
Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
» more
Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
» more
Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
» more
Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
CrateDBetcdFileMakerGraphiteRiak TS
DB-Engines blog posts

Time Series DBMS are the database category with the fastest increase in popularity
4 July 2016, Matthias Gelbmann

Time Series DBMS as a new trend?
1 June 2015, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

CrateDB Appoints Sergey Gerasimenko as New CTO
19 February 2024, PR Newswire

CrateDB Announces Availability of CrateDB on Google Cloud Marketplace
8 April 2024, Datanami

CrateDB Partners with HiveMQ to Deliver a Seamless Data Management Architecture for IoT
25 March 2024, PR Newswire

How We Designed CrateDB as a Realtime SQL DBMS for the Internet of Things
29 August 2017, The New Stack

Real-Time Analytics Database Company CrateDB Names Lars Färnström as New CEO
1 March 2023, Business Wire

provided by Google News

ETCD directives don't go well with RBI's stellar reputation
14 April 2024, Business Standard

Monitor Amazon EKS Control Plane metrics using AWS Open Source monitoring services | Amazon Web Services
12 October 2023, AWS Blog

Killing a market, softly: How an RBI communique could end India's thriving ETCD market
7 April 2024, The Economic Times

RBI defers exchange traded currency derivatives norms
5 April 2024, The Indian Express

RBI holds firm on rupee derivatives stance, defers norm implementation to May 3
4 April 2024, The Hindu

provided by Google News

Reviews - Features
1 March 2024, Reverse Shot

Tilda Swinton on 'Problemista' Fan Horror Stories About Her Character
1 March 2024, IndieWire

Apple Filed for new Trademarks in the U.S. and Hong Kong this week for the Figurative Version of 'Reality Composer ...
15 October 2023, Patently Apple

Claris FileMaker Pro 19 review
2 March 2022, TechRadar

Apple subsidiary FileMaker returns to its original name from the '80s
6 August 2019, The Verge

provided by Google News

The Billion Data Point Challenge: Building a Query Engine for High Cardinality Time Series Data
10 December 2018, Uber

Grafana Labs Announces Mimir Time Series Database
1 April 2022, Datanami

Getting Started with Monitoring using Graphite
23 January 2015, InfoQ.com

How Grafana made observability accessible
12 June 2023, InfoWorld

Grafana 4.0 Brings Major Enhancements to Leading Visualization Tool
30 November 2016, PR Newswire

provided by Google News

NoSQL pioneer Basho stamps its mark on time stamp data with Riak TS
6 October 2015, The Register

Best open source databases for IoT applications
26 May 2017, Open Source For You

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

SingleStore logo

Database for your real-time AI and Analytics Apps.
Try it today.

Ontotext logo

GraphDB allows you to link diverse data, index it for semantic search and enrich it via text analysis to build big knowledge graphs. Get it free.

Present your product here