DB-EnginesExtremeDB for everyone with an RTOSEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > CrateDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Ignite vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer

System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Ignite vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneCloud-based data warehousing serviceApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityFully managed big data interactive analytics platform
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infocolumn oriented
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store infoIf a column is of type dynamic docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types/­dynamic then it's possible to add arbitrary JSON documents in this cell
Event Store infothis is the general usage pattern at Microsoft. Billing, Logs, Telemetry events are stored in ADX and the state of an individual entity is defined by the arg_max(timestamps)
Spatial DBMS
Search engine infosupport for complex search expressions docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­parseoperator FTS, Geospatial docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­geo-point-to-geohash-function distributed search -> ADX acts as a distributed search engine
Time Series DBMS infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer/­time-series-analysis
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
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score4.38
Rank#77  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Websitecratedb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehouseignite.apache.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorer
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer
DeveloperCrateIBMApache Software FoundationInterSystemsMicrosoft
Initial release20132014201520182019
Current releaseApache Ignite 2.62023.3, June 2023cloud service with continuous releases
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
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 languageJavaC++, Java, .Net
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supporthostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
hosted
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesdepending on used data modelFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possibleyesyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subset
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Microsoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
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
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)PL/SQL, SQL PLyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yesYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, R
Triggersnoyesyes (cache interceptors and events)yesyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicy
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelyesyes (replicated cache)Source-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)noSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
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 strategyACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsyesAzure Active Directory Authentication
More information provided by the system vendor
CrateDBIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBIgniteInterSystems IRISMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
» more
InterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
» more
Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
» more
Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
» more
Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
» more
Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
CrateDBIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBIgniteInterSystems IRISMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer
Recent citations in the news

CrateDB Announces Availability of CrateDB on Google Cloud Marketplace
8 April 2024, Datanami

CrateDB Partners with HiveMQ to Advance IoT Data Management and Analytics Across Industries
25 March 2024, Datanami

How We Designed CrateDB as a Realtime SQL DBMS for the Internet of Things
29 August 2017, The New Stack

Crate.io Introduces CrateDB 2.0 Enterprise and Open Source Editions
16 May 2017, Business Wire

Crate.io raises $10M to grow its database platform
15 June 2021, VentureBeat

provided by Google News

Introducing the next generation of Db2 Warehouse: Our cost-effective, cloud-native data warehouse built for always-on ...
11 July 2023, ibm.com

Db2 Warehouse delivers 4x faster query performance than previously, while cutting storage costs by 34x
11 July 2023, ibm.com

Top 7 Cloud Data Warehouse Companies
31 May 2023, Datamation

Announcing the availability of Bring-Your-Own-License and Reserved Instance plans for next generation Db2 ...
7 August 2023, ibm.com

Data mining in Db2 Warehouse: the basics
23 June 2020, Towards Data Science

provided by Google News

GridGain Announces Call for Speakers for Virtual Apache Ignite Summit 2024
8 February 2024, PR Newswire

Apache Ignite: An Overview
6 September 2023, Open Source For You

GridGain Releases Conference Schedule for Virtual Apache Ignite Summit 2023
1 June 2023, Datanami

What is Apache Ignite? How is Apache Ignite Used?
18 July 2022, The Stack

Real-time in-memory OLTP and Analytics with Apache Ignite on AWS | Amazon Web Services
14 May 2016, AWS Blog

provided by Google News

Consultmed moving its e-referral software to InterSystems's IRIS for Health and more briefs
6 May 2024, Mobihealth News

Unlocking the Power of Generative AI: InterSystems IRIS with Vector Search -
26 March 2024, HIT Consultant

InterSystems Expands IRIS Data Platform with Vector Search to Support Next-Gen AI Applications
26 March 2024, Datanami

InterSystems Introduces Two New Cloud-Native Smart Data Services to Accelerate Database and Machine Learning ...
11 January 2024, Yahoo Finance

InterSystems and IPA's Subsidiary BioStrand Collaborate to Unveil the Innovative Integration of Vector Search with ...
28 March 2024, Business Wire

provided by Google News

Azure Data Explorer: Log and telemetry analytics benchmark
16 August 2022, Microsoft

Providing modern data transfer and storage service at Microsoft with Microsoft Azure - Inside Track Blog
13 July 2023, microsoft.com

Controlling costs in Azure Data Explorer using down-sampling and aggregation
11 February 2019, Microsoft

Individually great, collectively unmatched: Announcing updates to 3 great Azure Data Services
7 February 2019, Microsoft

Log and Telemetry Analytics Performance Benchmark
16 August 2022, Gigaom

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

SingleStore logo

The database to transact, analyze and contextualize your data in real time.
Try it today.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Present your product here