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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Geode vs. GridGain vs. OceanBase vs. STSdb

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
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Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#147  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitecratedb.comgeode.apache.orgwww.gridgain.comen.oceanbase.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsgeode.apache.org/­docswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-database
DeveloperCrateOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.GridGain Systems, Inc.OceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupSTS Soft SC
Initial release20132002200720102011
Current release1.1, February 2017GridGain 8.5.14.3.0, April 20244.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoCommercial license availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJava, C++, .NetC++C#
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitySQL-like query language (OQL)ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
.NET Client 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
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)user defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)PL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modeno
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyes (cache interceptors and events)yesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelMulti-source replicationyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication using Paxosnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
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 strategyyes, on a single nodeACIDACIDno
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsAccess rights per client and object definableSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno
More information provided by the system vendor
CrateDBGeodeGridGainOceanBaseSTSdb
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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OceanBase Database is the world’s only native distributed database that has set new...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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High Availability : The five IDCs across three sites disaster recovery solution sets...
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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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OceanBase Database has helped over 400 customers across industries upgrade their...
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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TPC-C No.1 Performance , achieved a result of 707.35 million tpmC in the TPC-C benchmark...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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Mulan PubL v2 license for open source community edition. Commercial license for enterprise...
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