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DBMS > DuckDB vs. LMDB vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. LMDB vs. SpatiaLite

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database librarySpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.98
Rank#57  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score1.53
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websiteduckdb.orgwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docswww.lmdb.tech/­docwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperSymasAlessandro Furieri
Initial release201820112008
Current release1.0.0, June 20240.9.32, January 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++CC++
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
Unix
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
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++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonono

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