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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. Kinetica vs. SAP IQ vs. TerarkDB

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analyticsA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-orientedKey-value store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websiteduckdb.orgwww.kinetica.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.htmlgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docsdocs.kinetica.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperKineticaSAP, formerly SybaseByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2018201219942016
Current release1.0.0, June 20247.1, August 202116.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++C++
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesno
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
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
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyesno
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexernone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSAP/Sybase Replication Servernone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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