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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. RocksDB vs. Speedb

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	3.40
Rank	#103	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Score	3.92
Rank	#94	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores

Score	0.28
Rank	#334	Overall
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

duckdb.org

rocksdb.org

www.speedb.io

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

Speedb

Initial release

2018

2013

2020

Current release

0.2, August 2020

7.10.2, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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