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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. OpenQM vs. Sadas Engine vs. Titan

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Name

Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.

Description

Distributed Database based on Lucene

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Titan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.

Primary database model

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.73
Rank	#224	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Website

cratedb.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.sadasengine.com

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan

Technical documentation

cratedb.com/docs

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

github.com/thinkaurelius/titan/wiki

Developer

Crate

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

SADAS s.r.l.

Aurelius, owned by DataStax

Initial release

2013

1993

2006

2012

Current release

3.4-12

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Apache license, version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

with some exceptions

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

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions (Javascript)

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

yes

via pluggable storage backends

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graph

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

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Specific characteristics

The enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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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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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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