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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. GridGain vs. Machbase Neo vs. Oracle Rdb vs. PlanetScale

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneGridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#339  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#184  Overall
#85  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Websitecratedb.comwww.gridgain.commachbase.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlplanetscale.com
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docswww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlmachbase.com/­dbmswww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlplanetscale.com/­docs
DeveloperCrateGridGain Systems, Inc.MachbaseOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)PlanetScale
Initial release20132007201319842020
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.1V8.0, August 20237.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree test version availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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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 languageJavaJava, C++, .NetCGo
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
HP Open VMSDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLSQL-like query languageyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
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
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
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
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)noyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelyes (replicated cache)selectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
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 strategyACIDnoyes, on a single nodeACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infovolatile and lookup tablenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsSecurity Hooks for custom implementationssimple password-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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CrateDBGridGainMachbase Neo infoFormer name was InfinifluxOracle RdbPlanetScale
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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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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