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DBMS > CrateDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HBase vs. Riak TS vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HBase vs. Riak TS vs. SurrealDB

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeWide column storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational 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
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitecratedb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasehbase.apache.orgsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCrateGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20132012200820152022
Current release2.3.4, January 20213.0.0, September 2022v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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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 languageJavaJavaErlangRust
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supporthostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROnoyes
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 indexesyesyesnorestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynonoyes, limitedSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
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
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
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
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)limited functionality with using 'rules'yes infoCoprocessors in JavaErlang
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Eventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono 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 strategyyesSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)noACID
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACnoyes, based on authentication and database rules
More information provided by the system vendor
CrateDBFirebase Realtime DatabaseHBaseRiak TSSurrealDB
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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