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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Distributed Database based on Lucene

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.69
Rank	#226	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#11	Vector DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#343	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

cratedb.com

greptime.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

cratedb.com/docs

docs.greptime.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Crate

Greptime Inc.

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2013

2022

1984

2018

Current release

5.8.1, August 2024

7.4.1.1, 2021

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux

Data scheme

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

schema-free, schema definition possible

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

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++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

Role-based access control

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Specific characteristics

GreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Greptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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