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DBMS > CrateDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Newts vs. Riak TS vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Newts vs. Riak TS vs. VoltDB

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityTime Series DBMS based on CassandraRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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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
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#319  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitecratedb.comwww.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-irisopennms.github.io/­newtswww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsdocs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperCrateInterSystemsOpenNMS GroupOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20132018201420152010
Current release2023.3, June 20233.0.0, September 202211.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
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 languageJavaJavaErlangJava, C++
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportAIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)depending on used data modelschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnorestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyesnoyes, limitedyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)yesnoErlangJava
Triggersnoyesnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infolinks between datasets can be storedno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
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 strategyACIDnonoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsyesnonoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures
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CrateDBInterSystems IRISNewtsRiak TSVoltDB
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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InterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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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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