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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. GBase vs. Interbase vs. Postgres-XL vs. TerminusDB

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresScalable 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 DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF 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
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitecratedb.comwww.gbase.cnwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.postgres-xl.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperCrateGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.EmbarcaderoDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2013200419842014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2018
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cInterBase 2020, December 201910 R1, October 201811.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGPL V3
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 languageJavaC, Java, PythonCCProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyesyes
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.noyesno infoexport as XML data possibleyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityStandard with numerous extensionsyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-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 API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
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#.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)user defined functionsyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnonehorizontal partitioningGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelyesInterbase Change ViewsJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate 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 strategyACIDACIDACID infoMVCCACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control
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CrateDBGBaseInterbasePostgres-XLTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
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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