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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. SingleStore vs. Spark SQL vs. TerminusDB

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websiteduckdb.orgwww.sequoiadb.comwww.singlestore.comspark.apache.org/­sqlterminusdb.com
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexdocs.singlestore.comspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperSequoiadb Ltd.SingleStore Inc.Apache Software FoundationDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20182013201320142018
Current release0.10, February 20248.5, January 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++C++, GoScalaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinuxLinux info64 bit version requiredLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyesyesyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query languageyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSONCluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
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
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJavaScriptyesnoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infohash partitioningyes, utilizing Spark CoreGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDDocument is locked during a transactionACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesnoRole-based access control
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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