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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. Heroic vs. Interbase vs. Quasardb vs. SWC-DB

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websiteduckdb.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasequasar.aigithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docsspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperSpotifyEmbarcaderoquasardbAlex Kashirin
Initial release20182014198420092020
Current release0.10, February 2024InterBase 2020, December 20193.14.1, January 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaCC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-lessAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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 infoexport as XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languagenono
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesInterbase Change ViewsSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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