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DBMS > CrateDB vs. Kingbase vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Kingbase vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TerarkDB

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.71
Rank#227  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#10  Vector DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitecratedb.comwww.kingbase.com.cnwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperCrateBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.OracleByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2013199920112016
Current releaseV8.0, August 202124.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinux
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalno
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
RESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Java 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
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)user defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelyesElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featurenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
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 strategyACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.noyes infooff heap cacheyes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesno

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