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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. Splunk vs. TerminusDB

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneTime Series DBMS based on CassandraDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseAnalytics Platform for Big DataScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.73
Rank#224  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitecratedb.comopennms.github.io/­newtsquasar.aiwww.splunk.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperCrateOpenNMS GroupquasardbSplunk Inc.DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20132014200920032018
Current release3.14.1, January 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPL V3
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 languageJavaJavaC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynoSQL-like query languageno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP APIHTTP RESTOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
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
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)nonoyesyes
Triggersnononoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorMulti-source replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
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 strategynoACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAccess rights for users and rolesRole-based access control
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CrateDBNewtsQuasardbSplunkTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist
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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