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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. EsgynDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache Kylin

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	1.64
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#266	Overall
	#124	Relational DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

www.esgyn.cn

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

kyligence.io/kyligence-enterprise

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

docs.heavy.ai

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Esgyn

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Kyligence, Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2018

2015

2016

2008

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

5.10, January 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

C++ and CUDA

Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Round robin

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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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