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DBMS > CrateDB vs. Snowflake vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Snowflake vs. VelocityDB

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.66
Rank#223  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#17  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#14  Vector DBMS
Score155.58
Rank#7  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#381  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Websitecratedb.comwww.snowflake.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperCrateSnowflake Computing Inc.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release201320142011
Current release5.8.1, August 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC#
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supporthostedAny that supports .NET
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilityyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
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
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)user defined functionsno
Triggersnono infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-levelyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
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 strategyACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationBased on Windows Authentication

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