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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. RocksDB vs. SQLite vs. SurrealDB vs. Teradata

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NameMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used open source RDBMSEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1061.34
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score44.87
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.mysql.comrocksdb.orgwww.sqlite.orgsurrealdb.comwww.teradata.com
Technical documentationdev.mysql.com/­docgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docsdocs.teradata.com
DeveloperOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunFacebook, Inc.Dwayne Richard HippSurrealDB LtdTeradata
Initial release19952013200020221984
Current release8.4.0, April 20249.2.1, May 20243.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024v1.5.0, May 2024Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++CRust
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxserver-lessLinux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infodynamic column typesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yesyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
C++ API
Java API
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoproprietary syntaxnonoyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabrichorizontal partitioningnoneSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes infovia file-system locksyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesnonoyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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