DBMS > LevelDB vs. Lovefield vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. Lovefield vs. RocksDB vs. searchxml vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#25	Search engines

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/google/leveldb

google.github.io/lovefield

rocksdb.org

www.searchxml.net/category/products

sql.js.org

Technical documentation

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

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Google

Facebook, Inc.

informationpartners gmbh

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2011

2014

2013

2015

2012

Current release

1.23, February 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

8.11.4, April 2024

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux

Windows

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

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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