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DBMS > CrateDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQream DB vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQream DB vs. TimesTen

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneSpatial extension of SQLitea GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsAn in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.64
Rank#225  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#16  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#12  Vector DBMS
Score1.50
Rank#144  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#229  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score1.23
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitecratedb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexsqream.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmldocs.sqream.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.html
DeveloperCrateAlessandro FurieriSQream TechnologiesOracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release2013200820171998
Current release5.8.1, August 20245.0.0, August 20202022.1.6, December 2022Release 22.1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supportserver-lessLinuxIBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via 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
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)nouser defined functions in PythonPL/SQL
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
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 strategyACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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