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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Kdb vs. MarkLogic vs. Riak TS vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneHigh performance Time Series DBMSOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Time Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.71
Rank#227  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score0.28
Rank#307  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#386  Overall
#15  Vector DBMS
Websitecratedb.comkx.comwww.progress.com/­marklogicwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docscode.kx.comwww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperCrateKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcMarkLogic Corp.Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release20132000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003200120152023
Current release3.6, May 201811.0, December 20223.0.0, September 20221.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Sourcecommercial
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 languageJavaqC++ErlangC++
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
macOS
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoVector, Numeric and String
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.noyesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitySQL-like query language (q)yes infoSQL92yes, limitedno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
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
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C 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++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)user defined functionsyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptErlangno
Triggersnoyes infowith viewsyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelSource-replica replicationyesselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono infolinks between datasets can be storedno
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 infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionnono
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.noyesyes, with Range Indexesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsrights management via user accountsRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsnoRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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CrateDBKdbMarkLogicRiak TSTranswarp Hippo
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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