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DBMS > CrateDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. PieCloudDB

System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hyprcubd vs. Ingres vs. PieCloudDB

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonGigaSpaces  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneHigh performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented TransactionsServerless Time Series DBMSWell established RDBMSA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Object oriented DBMS infoValues are user defined objects
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.71
Rank#227  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#188  Overall
#32  Document stores
#6  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Websitecratedb.comwww.gigaspaces.comhyprcubd.com (offline)www.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.openpie.com
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsdocs.gigaspaces.com/­latest/­landing.htmldocs.actian.com/­ingres
DeveloperCrateGigaspaces TechnologiesHyprcubd, Inc.Actian CorporationOpenPie
Initial release201320001974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s
Current release15.5, September 202011.2, May 20222.1, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial licenses availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnoyes
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 languageJavaJava, C++, .NetGoC
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesyes
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.nono infoXML can be used for describing objects metadatanono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitySQL-99 for query and DML statementsSQL-like query languageyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
gRPC (https).NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
CLI Client
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
.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)yesnoyesuser defined functions
Triggersnoyes, event driven architecturenoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyyes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelMulti-source replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication infosynchronous or asynchronous
Ingres Replicatoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoMap-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executorsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate Consistency infoConsistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANYEventual 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 strategyACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes infoMVCCyes
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsRole-based access controltoken accessfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard
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CrateDBGigaSpacesHyprcubdIngresPieCloudDB
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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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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PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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