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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Galaxybase vs. GreptimeDB

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Graph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.90
Rank#231  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#18  Time Series DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#383  Overall
#38  Graph DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#339  Overall
#31  Time Series DBMS
Websitecratedb.comgalaxybase.comgreptime.com
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsdocs.greptime.com
DeveloperCrateChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Greptime Inc.
Initial release201320172022
Current releaseNov 20, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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.
Implementation languageJavaC and JavaRust
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)Strong typed schemaFixed schema
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
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynoyes
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
gRPC
HTTP 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
Go
Java
Python
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)user defined procedures and functionsPython
Triggersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-level
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphs
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 strategyACID
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 control
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CrateDBGalaxybaseGreptimeDB
Specific characteristicsCrateDB is an open-source distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing...
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GreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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For IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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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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GreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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