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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Trino

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.40
Rank#103  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Score19.21
Rank#37  Overall
#23  Relational DBMS
Score6.07
Rank#68  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Websiteduckdb.orgspark.apache.org/­sqltrino.io
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmltrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterGitHubYouTube
DeveloperApache Software FoundationTrino Software Foundation
Initial release201820142012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current release0.9, September 20233.4.1 ( 2.13), June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ScalaJava
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnodepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
JDBC
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
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
Java
Python
R
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes, utilizing Spark Coredepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonedepending on connected data-source
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnodepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesdepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoSQL standard access control
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DuckDBSpark SQLTrino
Specific characteristicsTrino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesHigh performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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Typical application scenariosPerformant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersTrino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metrics33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTrino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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