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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. SAP IQ vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

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

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.61
Rank	#60	Overall
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Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#202	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

vitess.io

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

vitess.io/docs

Developer

SAP, formerly Sybase

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2018

1994

2013

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

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

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

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#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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