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DBMS > CrateDB vs. GridGain vs. HEAVY.AI vs. StarRocks

System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. GridGain vs. HEAVY.AI vs. StarRocks

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache Doris
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Columnar
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.69
Rank#226  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#11  Vector DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#150  Overall
#1  Columnar
#26  Key-value stores
#2  Object oriented DBMS
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.41
Rank#153  Overall
#71  Relational DBMS
Score0.95
Rank#193  Overall
#89  Relational DBMS
Websitecratedb.comwww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.starrocks.io
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmldocs.heavy.aidocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperCrateGridGain Systems, Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.The Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release2013200720162020
Current release5.8.1, August 2024GridGain 8.5.15.10, January 20223.3, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercial, open sourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, C++, .Net, Python, REST, SQLC++ and CUDAC++, Java
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
LinuxLinux
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
MySQL protocol
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++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nouser defined functions
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoRound robinhorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelyes (replicated cache)Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
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 strategyACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsRole-based access control
Security Hooks for custom implementations
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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