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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Oracle vs. SAP HANA

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonOracle  Xexclude from comparisonSAP HANA  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentWidely used RDBMSIn-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS infosince Oracle 23
Document store
Graph DBMS infowith SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.76
Rank#226  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#18  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#218  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score5.72
Rank#66  Overall
#8  Search engines
Score1221.06
Rank#1  Overall
#1  Relational DBMS
Score45.49
Rank#22  Overall
#16  Relational DBMS
Websitecratedb.comwww.geomesa.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.oracle.com/­databasewww.sap.com/­products/­hana.html
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmllearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.oracle.com/­en/­databasehelp.sap.com/­hana
DeveloperCrateCCRi and othersMicrosoftOracleSAP
Initial release20132014201519802010
Current release4.0.5, February 2024V123c, September 20232.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono infoalso available as a cloud based service
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 languageJavaScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supporthostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Appliance or cloud-service
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes infoSchemaless in JSON and XML columnsyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynonoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
JDBC
ODBC
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
JavaScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)nonoPL/SQL infoalso stored procedures in Java possibleSQLScript, R
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding, horizontal partitioningyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-leveldepending on storage layeryes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono infocan be realized in PL/SQLno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
depending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes
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 strategynonoACID infoisolation level can be parameterizedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layernoyes infoVersion 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
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CrateDBGeoMesaMicrosoft Azure AI SearchOracleSAP HANA
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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