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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. Ingres vs. NSDb vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

Well established RDBMS

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

duckdb.org

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

nsdb.io

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

docs.actian.com/ingres

nsdb.io/Architecture

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Actian Corporation

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2018

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2017

2013

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

11.2, May 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

C++ API
Java 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

Java
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Ingres Replicator

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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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