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DBMS > CrateDB vs. dBASE vs. GridGain vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. dBASE vs. GridGain vs. XTDB

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LucenedBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#154  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitecratedb.comwww.dbase.comwww.gridgain.comgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docswww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasewww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCrateAsthon TateGridGain Systems, Inc.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release2013197920072019
Current releasedBASE 2019, 2019GridGain 8.5.11.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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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++, .NetClojure
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLlimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
HTTP REST
JDBC
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
dBase proprietary IDEC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)no infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)no
Triggersnonoyes (cache interceptors and events)no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelnoneyes (replicated cache)yes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)no
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
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 strategyno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsAccess rights for users and rolesSecurity Hooks for custom implementations
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CrateDBdBASEGridGainXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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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