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DBMS > LevelDB vs. PostGIS vs. SpatiaLite vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. PostGIS vs. SpatiaLite vs. XTDB

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NameLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesSpatial extension of PostgreSQLSpatial extension of SQLiteA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.35
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­google/­leveldbpostgis.netwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdpostgis.net/­documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperGoogleAlessandro FurieriJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2011200520082019
Current release1.23, February 20213.4.2, February 20245.0.0, August 20201.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++Clojure
Server operating systemsIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-lessAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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