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DBMS > SQLite vs. SWC-DB vs. Valkey

System Properties Comparison SQLite vs. SWC-DB vs. Valkey

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NameSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonValkey infoOpen source key/value datastore  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSOpen source key/value datastore
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score117.77
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#377  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score1.35
Rank#153  Overall
#25  Key-value stores
Websitewww.sqlite.orggithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
valkey.io
Technical documentationwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlgithub.com/­valkey-io/­valkey
DeveloperDwayne Richard HippAlex Kashirin
Initial release200020202024
Current release3.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 20240.5, April 2021Valkey 8.0.1, October 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC++C
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
Data schemeyes infodynamic column typesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nono
Secondary indexesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesActionscript
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++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno

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