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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. IBM Db2 vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

Distributed Database based on Lucene

Common in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Since Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

in Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS

with Db2 Spatial Extender

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.66
Rank	#223	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#17	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#15	Vector DBMS

Score	126.57
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	19.96
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

cratedb.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2

postgis.net

Technical documentation

cratedb.com/docs

www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Crate

IBM

Initial release

2013

1983

host version

2005

Current release

5.8.1, August 2024

12.1, October 2016

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

free version is available

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries

MongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery

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
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

only with Windows/Unix/Linux Version

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

yes

with separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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