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System Properties Comparison SpatiaLite vs. Splice Machine vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

Spatial extension of SQLite

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

splicemachine.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Alessandro Furieri

Splice Machine

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2008

2014

2010

Current release

5.0.0, August 2020

3.1, March 2021

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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