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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

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

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	6.71
Rank	#51	Overall
	#31	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#394	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.37
Rank	#269	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#124	Relational DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

www.sadasengine.com

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

SADAS s.r.l.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

2018

2006

2013

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

proprietary protocol using JSON

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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