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System Properties Comparison Spark SQL vs. SQLite vs. SurrealDB vs. TempoIQ

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NameSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
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DescriptionSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitespark.apache.org/­sqlwww.sqlite.orgsurrealdb.comtempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software FoundationDwayne Richard HippSurrealDB LtdTempoIQ
Initial release2014200020222012
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoPublic DomainOpen Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageScalaCRust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-lessLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infodynamic column typesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
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
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnoyesyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infovia file-system locksyesyes
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes, based on authentication and database rulessimple authentication-based access control

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