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DBMS > DuckDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SQLite vs. TimesTen vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SQLite vs. TimesTen vs. Yanza

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websiteduckdb.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.sqlite.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlyanza.com
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docsdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmldocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperMicrosoftDwayne Richard HippOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Yanza
Initial release20182010200019982015
Current release0.10, February 2024V123.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoPublic Domaincommercialcommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageC++C++C
Server operating systemsserver-lesshostedserver-lessAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infodynamic column typesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yesno
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyesno
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
HTTP 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
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLnoPL/SQLno
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, with always 3 replicas availablenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes infovia file-system locksyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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