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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. FoundationDB vs. SpaceTime vs. Trino vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQLMultiValue 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
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
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
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score5.00
Rank#66  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#97  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Websitecratedb.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.mireo.com/­spacetimetrino.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsapple.github.io/­foundationdbtrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
docs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperCrateFoundationDBMireoTrino Software FoundationRocket Software
Initial release2013201320202012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL1985
Current release6.2.28, November 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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.Starburst Galaxy offers a feature-rich user interface to connect all your data sources, manage your Trino clusters, and query your data.
Implementation languageJavaC++C++JavaC
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS infofor devlopment
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesyesoptional
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnonodepending on connected data-sourceyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitysupported in specific SQL layer onlyA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
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
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#
C++
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)in SQL-layer onlynoyes, depending on connected data-sourceyes
Triggersnonononoyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingFixed-grid hypercubesdepending on connected data-sourcenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)depending on connected data-sourceSource-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
Linearizable consistencyImmediate Consistencydepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlynonono
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 strategyACIDnodepending on connected data-sourceACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesdepending on connected data-sourceyes
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 accountsnoyesSQL standard access controlAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based
More information provided by the system vendor
CrateDBFoundationDBSpaceTimeTrinoUniData,UniVerse
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Trino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Trino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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Trino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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