DBMS > SpaceTime vs. Spark SQL vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison SpaceTime vs. Spark SQL vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	1.83
Rank	#139	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

www.mireo.com/spacetime

spark.apache.org/sql

www.sqlite.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Mireo

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2020

2014

2000

2020

2017

Current release

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Python

Java
Python
R
Scala

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

C++

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Role-based access control

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