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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Greenplum

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Name

Description

Distributed Date Store based on Lucene

Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database

A logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.90
Rank	#186	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS
	#11	Search engines

Score	13.61
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Website

crate.io

greenplum.org

Technical documentation

crate.io/docs

docs.greenplum.org

Developer

Crate

Pivotal Software Inc.

Initial release

2013

2005

Current release

6.7.1, April 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java 7 (and higher) VM

Linux

Data scheme

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

since Version 4.2

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, but no triggers and constraints

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET

community maintained client
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Read Your Own Writes Consistency

for primary key lookups

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

CrateDB is an open source distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing...
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Competitive advantages

CrateDB is typically used in operational analytics applications, particularly those...
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Typical application scenarios

CrateDB is ideal for integrating and analyzing streams of data--often machine-generated--in...
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Key customers

CrateDB customers include McAfee, Qualtrics , Nokia, NBC Golfnow , Digital Domain...
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Market metrics

The CrateDB open source project was started in 2014. CrateDB was the winner of TechCrunch...
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Licensing and pricing models

CrateDB pricing CrateDB Community Edition is open source and free to use under the...
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