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DBMS > CrateDB vs. LeanXcale vs. SpaceTime vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. LeanXcale vs. SpaceTime vs. SQL.JS

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Port of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational 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
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitecratedb.comwww.leanxcale.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimesql.js.org
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docssql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperCrateLeanXcaleMireoAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2013201520202012
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source
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 languageJavaC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyes infothrough Apache DerbyA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
RESTful HTTP APIJavaScript 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
Java
Scala
C#
C++
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)nono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingFixed-grid hypercubesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelReal-time block device replication (DRBD)none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
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 datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsyesno
More information provided by the system vendor
CrateDBLeanXcaleSpaceTimeSQL.JS
Specific characteristicsThe enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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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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