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System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. Qdrant vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Key-value store

Vector DBMS

Key-value store

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

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/google/leveldb

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

rocksdb.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

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

qdrant.tech/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Google

Qdrant

Facebook, Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2011

2021

2013

2018

Current release

1.23, February 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Rust

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Collection-level replication

yes

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, tunable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

Key-based authentication

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