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DBMS > DuckDB vs. mSQL vs. SpatiaLite vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. mSQL vs. SpatiaLite vs. Vitess

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSSpatial extension of SQLiteScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websiteduckdb.orghughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexvitess.io
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesAlessandro FurieriThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2018199420082013
Current release0.10, February 20244.4, October 20215.0.0, August 202015.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++Go
Server operating systemsserver-lessAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
server-lessDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
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
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
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 infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)noyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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