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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. MySQL vs. OrigoDB vs. Transbase vs. UniData,UniVerse

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	4.68
Rank	#76	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#378	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#337	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	3.47
Rank	#93	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

www.mysql.com

origodb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

dev.mysql.com/doc

origodb.com/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Robert Friberg et al

Transaction Software GmbH

Rocket Software

Initial release

2018

1995

2009

under the name LiveDB

1987

1985

Current release

0.10, February 2024

8.3.0, January 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

optional

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.

yes

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based 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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

yes

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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