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System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Splunk vs. SwayDB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Analytics Platform for Big Data

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Search engine

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.33
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	24.97
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	93.02
Rank	#13	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#384	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/google/leveldb

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

www.splunk.com

swaydb.simer.au

yanza.com

Technical documentation

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

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

Developer

Google

Microsoft

Splunk Inc.

Simer Plaha

Yanza

Initial release

2011

2014

2003

2018

2015

Current release

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

APIs and other access methods

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

HTTP REST

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

JavaScript

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Access rights for users and roles

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