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DBMS > CrateDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Greenplum vs. GridGain

System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Greenplum vs. GridGain

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSColumnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.69
Rank#226  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#11  Vector DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#46  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#150  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#69  Relational DBMS
Websitecratedb.comwww.geomesa.orggreenplum.orgwww.gridgain.com
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.greenplum.orgwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.html
DeveloperCrateCCRi and othersPivotal Software Inc.GridGain Systems, Inc.
Initial release2013201420052007
Current release5.8.1, August 20245.0.1, July 20247.0.0, September 2023GridGain 8.5.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial, open source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQL
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes infosince Version 4.2yes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynoyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
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
Java
Perl
Python
R
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)noyesyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggersnonoyesyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-leveldepending on storage layerSource-replica replicationyes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
depending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
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 strategynoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layernoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations

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