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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. RocksDB vs. SurrealDB

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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)

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
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Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

rocksdb.org

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2018

2013

2022

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux

Linux
macOS
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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

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

ACID

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

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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