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System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb vs. Riak TS vs. XTDB

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KVA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.76
Rank#226  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#18  Time Series DBMS
#8  Vector DBMS
Score8.00
Rank#51  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#330  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#308  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#336  Overall
#48  Document stores
Websitecratedb.comprometheus.ioquasar.aigithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsprometheus.io/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latestwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperCratequasardbOpen Source, formerly Basho TechnologiesJuxt Ltd.
Initial release20132015200920152019
Current release3.14.1, January 20243.0.0, September 20221.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen SourceOpen Source infoMIT License
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 languageJavaGoC++ErlangClojure
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes infointeger and binarynoyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nono infoImport of XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infowith tagsrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynoSQL-like query languageyes, limitedlimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP REST
JDBC
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
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)nonoErlangno
Triggersnononoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factoryes, each node contains all data
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
noneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono infolinks between datasets can be storedno
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 strategynoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno
More information provided by the system vendor
CrateDBPrometheusQuasardbRiak TSXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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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Licensing and pricing modelsSee CrateDB pricing >
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