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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. FileMaker vs. RDF4J vs. SwayDB vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRDF storeKey-value storeMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score3.16
Rank#97  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Websitecratedb.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerrdf4j.orgswaydb.simer.auwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docswww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperCrateClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Simer PlahaRocket Software
Initial release20131983200420181985
Current release19.4.1, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
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 languageJavaJavaScalaC
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnooptional
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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyes infovia pluginsnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
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
PHPJava
PHP
Python
Java
Kotlin
Scala
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)yesyesnoyes
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14nonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
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 strategynoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedAtomic execution of operationsACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountssimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnonoAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based
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CrateDBFileMakerRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameSwayDBUniData,UniVerse
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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