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DBMS > DuckDB vs. NSDb vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. NSDb vs. YottaDB

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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 KubernetesA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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Score7.39
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#313  Overall
#46  Key-value stores
Websiteduckdb.orgnsdb.ioyottadb.com
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docsnsdb.io/­Architectureyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperYottaDB, LLC
Initial release201820172001
Current release1.0.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC++Java, ScalaC
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
macOS
Docker
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringno
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 indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
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
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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