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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Quasardb vs. RDFox vs. Riak TS

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational 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
Score0.19
Rank#330  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#317  Overall
#26  Graph DBMS
#15  RDF stores
Score0.28
Rank#308  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitecratedb.comwww.geomesa.orgquasar.aiwww.oxfordsemantic.tech
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docswww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.oxfordsemantic.techwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperCrateCCRi and othersquasardbOxford Semantic TechnologiesOpen Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20132014200920172015
Current release4.0.5, February 20243.14.1, January 20246.0, Septermber 20223.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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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++C++Erlang
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynoSQL-like query languagenoyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
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
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
Java
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)nonoErlang
Triggersnononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-leveldepending on storage layerSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorreplication via a shared file systemselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyeswith Hadoop integrationyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
depending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between datasets can be stored
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 strategynoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layeryes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailRoles, resources, and access typesno
More information provided by the system vendor
CrateDBGeoMesaQuasardbRDFoxRiak TS
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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