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System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. Memcached vs. NSDb vs. ObjectBox

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NameLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.32
Rank#100  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score20.81
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.07
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score1.42
Rank#169  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.memcached.orgnsdb.ioobjectbox.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikinsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.objectbox.io
DeveloperGoogleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalObjectBox Limited
Initial release2011200320172017
Current release1.23, February 20211.6.25, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CJava, ScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
macOS
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnonoall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityonline/offline synchronization between client and server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith automatic compression on writesnoUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyes
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