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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. GBase vs. WakandaDB

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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.

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.64
Rank	#227	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#17	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#14	Vector DBMS

Score	1.24
Rank	#164	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#359	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

cratedb.com

www.gbase.cn

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

cratedb.com/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Crate

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2013

2004

2012

Current release

5.8.1, August 2024

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

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

RESTful HTTP API

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

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

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