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

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Spatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.61
Rank#60  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score1.56
Rank#142  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websiteduckdb.orgnsdb.iorocksdb.orgwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docsnsdb.io/­Architecturegithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperFacebook, Inc.Alessandro Furieri
Initial release2018201720132008
Current release1.0.0, June 20249.4.0, June 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Java, ScalaC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
macOS
Linuxserver-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringnoyes
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 indexesyesall fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
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
Java
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
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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