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DBMS > LevelDB vs. RDF4J vs. SpaceTime vs. Speedb vs. Titan

System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. RDF4J vs. SpaceTime vs. Speedb vs. Titan

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NameLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparisonTitan  Xexclude from comparison
Titan has been decommisioned after the takeover by Datastax. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking. A fork has been open-sourced as JanusGraph.
DescriptionEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDBTitan is a Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRDF storeSpatial DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#310  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­google/­leveldbrdf4j.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.speedb.iogithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdrdf4j.org/­documentationgithub.com/­thinkaurelius/­titan/­wiki
DeveloperGoogleSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.MireoSpeedbAurelius, owned by DataStax
Initial release20112004202020202012
Current release1.23, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache license, version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++C++Java
Server operating systemsIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoRDF Schemasyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes
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 indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementednono
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnonoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneFixed-grid hypercubeshorizontal partitioningyes infovia pluggable storage backends
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneReal-time block device replication (DRBD)yesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia Faunus, a graph analytics engine
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usednoyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith automatic compression on writesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyesyesyes infoSupports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyesnoUser authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server
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LevelDBRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameSpaceTimeSpeedbTitan
Specific characteristicsSpeedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
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Competitive advantagesSpeedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
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