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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Ingres vs. Kdb vs. MaxDB

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneWell established RDBMSHigh performance Time Series DBMSA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Websitecratedb.comwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreskx.commaxdb.sap.com
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsdocs.actian.com/­ingrescode.kx.commaxdb.sap.com/­documentation
DeveloperCrateActian CorporationKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997
Initial release20131974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20031984
Current release11.2, May 20223.6, May 20187.9.10.12, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial infoLimited community edition free
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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 languageJavaCqC++
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyesSQL-like query language (q)yes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
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
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)yesuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyesyes infowith viewsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyhorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelIngres ReplicatorSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
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 integritynoyesyesyes
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 strategyACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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CrateDBIngresKdbMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesResponse time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenarios​ IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customersAcross all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricsThe CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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