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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Galaxybase vs. GraphDB

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformEnterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.
Primary database modelDocument store
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.81
Rank#249  Overall
#37  Document stores
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#404  Overall
#38  Graph DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#129  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Websitecratedb.comgalaxybase.comwww.ontotext.com
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentation
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterGitHubYouTubeMedium
DeveloperCrateChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Ontotext
Initial release201320172000
Current releaseNov 20, November 202110.2, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourced
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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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 JavaJava
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinuxAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)Strong typed schemaschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynostored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBC
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
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
Go
Java
Python
.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)user defined procedures and functionswell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibility
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoConstraint checking
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 strategyACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsRole-based access controlDefault Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.
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CrateDBGalaxybaseGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM
Specific characteristicsCrateDB is an open-source distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing...
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Ontotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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GraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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Typical application scenarios​ Industrial IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time...
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Metadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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GraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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GraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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