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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. LevelDB vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Description

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.64
Rank	#232	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	2.19
Rank	#114	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	1.12
Rank	#173	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#8	Vector DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

github.com/google/leveldb

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Microsoft

Google

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2010

2011

2017

Current release

1.23, February 2021

4.0 (May 2024)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

.NET

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

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29 May 2024

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29 May 2024

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28 May 2024

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