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System Properties Comparison Immudb vs. LevelDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL

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Name

Description

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

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

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Primary database model

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.24
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	2.33
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

github.com/google/leveldb

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.postgres-xl.org

Technical documentation

docs.immudb.io

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

docs.objectbox.io

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Codenotary

Google

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2020

2011

2017

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

Current release

1.2.3, April 2022

1.23, February 2021

4.0 (May 2024)

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like syntax

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

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

MVCC

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

News

MongoDB Realm & Device Sync alternatives – ObjectBox
17 September 2024

Local AI – what it is and why we need it
11 September 2024

First on-device Vector Database (aka Semantic Index) for iOS
24 July 2024

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with vector databases: Expanding AI Capabilities
18 June 2024

The on-device Vector Database for Android and Java
29 May 2024

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