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DBMS > LevelDB vs. PouchDB vs. RDF4J vs. RisingWave

System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. PouchDB vs. RDF4J vs. RisingWave

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NameLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRisingWave  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRDF storeRelational DBMS
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Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.64
Rank#238  Overall
#110  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­google/­leveldbpouchdb.comrdf4j.orgwww.risingwave.com/­database
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdpouchdb.com/­guidesrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.risingwave.com/­docs/­current/­intro
DeveloperGoogleApache Software FoundationSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.RisingWave Labs
Initial release2011201220042022
Current release1.23, February 20217.1.1, June 20191.2, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSDOpen SourceOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaScriptJavaRust
Server operating systemsIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesStandard SQL-types and JSON
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
JavaScriptJava
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptyesUDFs in Python or Java
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoUsers and Roles

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