DBMS > CrateDB vs. GBase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SAP IQ vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. GBase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SAP IQ vs. TimescaleDB

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Name

Description

Distributed Database based on Lucene

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.69
Rank	#226	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#11	Vector DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#377	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	4.06
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Website

cratedb.com

www.gbase.cn

www.hawkular.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.timescale.com

Technical documentation

cratedb.com/docs

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Crate

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Community supported by Red Hat

SAP, formerly Sybase

Timescale

Initial release

2013

2004

2014

1994

2017

Current release

5.8.1, August 2024

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

user defined functions

yes

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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