CrateDB in Comparison
How the open source SQL Database CrateDB compares to other databases: SQL, NoSQL, NewSQL, Time Series, and others.
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CrateDB is a distributed SQL database built on top of a NoSQL foundation (for storage, indexing, and networking), and it’s a best fit if you need:
To ingest a fire hose of data
Millions of inserts per second
Query versatility
Real-time, time series, geospatial, text search, AI, …
Data versatility
Dynamic schemas of structured or unstructured data
SQL
For ease of use and integration with no lock-in
Simple scalability
Grow the DB easily to handle more data or users
CrateDB in Comparison to other Databases
Here’s a high-level comparison of CrateDB versus other database categories:
Capability |
CrateDB |
NoSQL |
Traditional SQL |
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| Query versatility | |
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| Data versatility | |
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| SQL | |
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| Simple scalability | |
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CrateDB vs. PostgreSQL Query Performance
In a benchmark querying 314 million rows of sensor readings, CrateDB provided 33x better price-performance than PostgreSQL.
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