DBMS > LevelDB vs. PostGIS vs. RDF4J vs. Sequoiadb vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. PostGIS vs. RDF4J vs. Sequoiadb vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

RDF store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/google/leveldb

postgis.net

rdf4j.org

www.sequoiadb.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

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

postgis.net/documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Google

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2011

2005

2004

2013

2008

Current release

1.23, February 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

simple password-based access control

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