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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. DuckDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.55
Rank	#232	Overall
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	0.34
Rank	#267	Overall
	#123	Relational DBMS

Score	2.06
Rank	#124	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	134.73
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#350	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

duckdb.org

www.enterprisedb.com

www.sqlite.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

www.enterprisedb.com/edb-docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2013

2018

2005

2000

2020

Current release

0.2, August 2020

14, December 2021

3.38.4 (4 May 2022), May 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

PostgreSQL with added Security, Performance, DBA, Developer, and Oracle compatibile...
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Competitive advantages

Complete Postgres platform with enterprise-class Postgres, Management, Integration,...
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Typical application scenarios

New applications for transactional, reporting and mixed workloads that need to integrate...
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Key customers

MasterCard, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Ericsson, AT&T, Alibaba, Korea Telecom and...
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Market metrics

Listed in Gartner Magic Quadrant 2013-2018 with over 4,000 customers.
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Licensing and pricing models

Open Source and Commercial core based licensing.
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