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System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. MySQL vs. SingleStore vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#209	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/google/leveldb

www.mysql.com

www.singlestore.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

vitess.io

Technical documentation

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

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.singlestore.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Google

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SingleStore Inc.

Rocket Software

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2011

1995

2013

1985

2013

Current release

1.23, February 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

8.5, January 2024

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

hash partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

configurable

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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