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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. InfluxDB vs. NuoDB vs. Quasardb vs. searchxml

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
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Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Websitecratedb.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasequasar.aiwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbdoc.nuodb.comdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperCrateDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.quasardbinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20132013201320092015
Current release2.7.6, April 20243.14.1, January 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial infolimited edition freecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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 languageJavaGoC++C++C++
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.nonononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitySQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
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
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)noJava, SQLnoyes infoon the application server
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlydata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlyyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
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 strategynoACID infotunable commit protocolACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infoTemporary tableyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountssimple rights management via user accountsStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
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Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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InfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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