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DBMS > CrateDB vs. Riak KV vs. Splice Machine vs. STSdb vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Riak KV vs. Splice Machine vs. STSdb vs. TempoIQ

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websitecratedb.comsplicemachine.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4tempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperCrateOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSplice MachineSTS Soft SCTempoIQ
Initial release20132009201420112012
Current release3.2.0, December 20223.1, March 20214.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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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 languageJavaErlangJavaC#
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesrestrictedyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
.NET Client APIHTTP API
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
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
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)Erlangyes infoJavanono
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesnoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesYes, via Full Spark Integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storedyesnono
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 strategynoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnosimple authentication-based access control
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CrateDBRiak KVSplice MachineSTSdbTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB
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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