DBMS > InfinityDB vs. LevelDB vs. MySQL vs. PouchDB vs. Speedb

System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. LevelDB vs. MySQL vs. PouchDB vs. Speedb

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Name

Description

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.08
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.26
Rank	#310	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Website

boilerbay.com

github.com/google/leveldb

www.mysql.com

pouchdb.com

www.speedb.io

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

Google

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Apache Software Foundation

Speedb

Initial release

2002

2011

1995

2012

2020

Current release

4.0

1.23, February 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

Secondary indexes

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Java

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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