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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Google Cloud Bigtable vs. HEAVY.AI vs. SQLite vs. XTDB

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Bigtable  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneGoogle's NoSQL Big Data database service. It's the same database that powers many core Google services, including Search, Analytics, Maps, and Gmail.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.71
Rank#227  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score3.15
Rank#95  Overall
#14  Key-value stores
#8  Wide column stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitecratedb.comcloud.google.com/­bigtablegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.sqlite.orggithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docscloud.google.com/­bigtable/­docsdocs.heavy.aiwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCrateGoogleHEAVY.AI, Inc.Dwayne Richard HippJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20132015201620002019
Current release5.10, January 20223.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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 languageJavaC++ and CUDACClojure
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supporthostedLinuxserver-lessAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesyes infodynamic column typesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynoyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedlimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HappyBase (Python library)
HBase compatible API (Java)
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
HTTP REST
JDBC
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#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)nononono
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoRound robinnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelInternal replication in Colossus, and regional replication between two clusters in different zonesMulti-source replicationnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate consistency (for a single cluster), Eventual consistency (for two or more replicated clusters)Immediate 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 strategyAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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CrateDBGoogle Cloud BigtableHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022SQLiteXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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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