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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. IRONdb vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Access vs. XTDB

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.71
Rank#227  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitecratedb.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.kinetica.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.kinetica.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accesswww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCrateCirconus LLC.KineticaMicrosoftJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20132017201219922019
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20187.1, August 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 20191.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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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 languageJavaC and C++C, C++C++Clojure
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinuxLinuxWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyesyes, 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitySQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardlimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
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
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)yes, in Luauser defined functionsyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersnonoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
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 strategynonoACID infobut no files for transaction loggingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes, 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.nonoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAM
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003
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CrateDBIRONdbKineticaMicrosoft AccessXTDB 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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