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System Properties Comparison Spark SQL vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB vs. VelocityDB vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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 .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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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	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

spark.apache.org/sql

www.sqlite.org

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

velocitydb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Alex Kashirin

VelocityDB Inc

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2000

2020

2011

2019

Current release

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

0.5, April 2021

7.x

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux

Any that supports .NET

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

.Net

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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++

.Net

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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