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System Properties Comparison chDB vs. HyperSQL vs. LeanXcale vs. LevelDB vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

hsqldb.org

www.leanxcale.com

github.com/google/leveldb

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

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

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

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

Developer

LeanXcale

Google

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2023

2001

2015

2011

2008

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

1.23, February 2021

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Supported programming languages

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
Java
Scala

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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