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System Properties Comparison SQLite vs. YDB

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NameSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score117.77
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#228  Overall
#38  Document stores
#105  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.sqlite.orggithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperDwayne Richard HippYandex
Initial release20002019
Current release3.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
Data schemeyes infodynamic column typesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yes
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 indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneActive-passive shard replication
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 dataACIDACID
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 controlnoAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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