DBMS > CrateDB vs. dBASE vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Splunk

System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. dBASE vs. Memgraph vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Splunk

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Name

Description

Distributed Database based on Lucene

dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Analytics Platform for Big Data

Primary database model

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Rank	#227	Overall
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	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Website

cratedb.com

www.dbase.com

memgraph.com

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.splunk.com

Technical documentation

cratedb.com/docs

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

memgraph.com/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Social network pages

Developer

Crate

Asthon Tate

Memgraph Ltd

Microsoft

Splunk Inc.

Initial release

2013

1979

2017

1989

2003

Current release

dBASE 2019, 2019

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

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

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP REST

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

dBase proprietary IDE

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

none

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

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

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

ACID

with snapshot isolation

ACID

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

Users, roles and permissions

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Response 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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Graph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Key customers

Across all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Market metrics

The CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Licensing and pricing models

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