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System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. NuoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SingleStore vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

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

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/google/leveldb

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

www.postgres-xl.org

www.singlestore.com

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

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

doc.nuodb.com

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.singlestore.com

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Google

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

SingleStore Inc.

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2011

2013

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2013

2010

Current release

1.23, February 2021

10 R1, October 2018

8.5, January 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Go

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

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

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

user defined functions

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

hash partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Source-replica replication

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

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

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

Snapshots and command logging

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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