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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. LevelDB vs. RDF4J vs. SiteWhere vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

Distributed Database based on Lucene

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

RDF store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.69
Rank	#226	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#11	Vector DBMS

Score	2.33
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#347	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.48
Rank	#107	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

cratedb.com

github.com/google/leveldb

rdf4j.org

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

cratedb.com/docs

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

rdf4j.org/documentation

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Crate

Google

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

SiteWhere

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2013

2011

2004

2010

2019

Current release

5.8.1, August 2024

1.23, February 2021

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

HTTP REST

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

yes

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

TDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing models

TDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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