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System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. LokiJS vs. NuoDB vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.75
Rank	#107	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.48
Rank	#262	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.99
Rank	#195	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/google/leveldb

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

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

Technical documentation

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

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

doc.nuodb.com

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

Developer

Google

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2011

2014

2013

2008

Current release

1.23, February 2021

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

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

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

JavaScript

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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