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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

Distributed Date Store based on Lucene

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.00
Rank	#176	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS
	#13	Search engines

Score	0.69
Rank	#210	Overall
	#33	Document stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#283	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Website

crate.io

www.percona.com/software/mongodb/percona-server-for-mongodb

riak.com/products/riak-ts

Technical documentation

crate.io/docs

www.percona.com/doc/percona-server-for-mongodb/LATEST/index.html

Developer

Crate

Percona

Basho Technologies

Initial release

2013

2015

Current release

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java 7 (and higher) VM

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

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

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, but no triggers and constraints

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET

community maintained client
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

JavaScript and Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Read Your Own Writes Consistency

for primary key lookups

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

CrateDB is an open source distributed SQL database that spreads data and processing...
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Competitive advantages

CrateDB is typically used in operational analytics applications, particularly those...
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Typical application scenarios

CrateDB is ideal for integrating and analyzing streams of data--often machine-generated--in...
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Key customers

CrateDB customers include McAfee, Qualtrics , Nokia, NBC Golfnow , Digital Domain...
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Market metrics

The CrateDB open source project was started in 2014. CrateDB was the winner of TechCrunch...
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Licensing and pricing models

CrateDB pricing CrateDB Community Edition is open source and free to use under the...
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