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DBMS > InfinityDB vs. LevelDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Spark SQL vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. LevelDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Spark SQL vs. TerminusDB

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websiteboilerbay.comgithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.postgres-xl.orgspark.apache.org/­sqlterminusdb.com
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.GoogleApache Software FoundationDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release200220112014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20142018
Current release4.01.23, February 202110 R1, October 20183.5.0 ( 2.13), September 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CScalaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysnoyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioningyes, utilizing Spark CoreGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoACID infoMVCCnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access control

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