DBMS > CrateDB vs. Greenplum vs. OpenSearch vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Greenplum vs. OpenSearch vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

Distributed Database 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.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

Search engine

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Score	0.71
Rank	#227	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#10	Vector DBMS

Score	8.08
Rank	#48	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

cratedb.com

greenplum.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

cratedb.com/docs

docs.greenplum.org

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

Crate

Pivotal Software Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Transwarp

Initial release

2013

2005

2021

Current release

7.0.0, September 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

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

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

C
Java
Perl
Python
R

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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