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System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. Machbase Neo vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

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

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	2.15
Rank	#110	Overall
	#18	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.22
Rank	#109	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/google/leveldb

machbase.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

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

machbase.com/dbms

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Google

Machbase

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2011

2013

2017

Current release

1.23, February 2021

V8.0, August 2023

2024.2, December 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

free test version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

yes

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