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Name

Description

Distributed Database based on Lucene

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.73
Rank	#224	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

cratedb.com/docs

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Crate

McObject

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2013

2001

2008

2000

Current release

8.2, 2021

2.3.4, January 2021

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

server-less

Data scheme

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

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual 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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

via file-system locks

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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Specific characteristics

The enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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eXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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Competitive advantages

Response time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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eXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Typical application scenarios

IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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IoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customers

Across all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Schneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metrics

The CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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With hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing models

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For server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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