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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Firebird vs. Kinetica vs. Snowflake vs. TerminusDB

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score0.71
Rank#227  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score130.36
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitecratedb.comwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.kinetica.comwww.snowflake.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docswww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.kinetica.comdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperCrateFirebird FoundationKineticaSnowflake Computing Inc.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20132000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201220142018
Current release5.0.0, January 20247.1, August 202111.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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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 and C++C, C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
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
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)PSQLuser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingyesGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyesJournaling Streams
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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesyes
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 strategyACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and roles on table levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationRole-based access control
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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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