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System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. Riak TS vs. Transbase vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

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

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/google/leveldb

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Google

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Transaction Software GmbH

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2011

2015

1987

2019

Current release

1.23, February 2021

3.0.0, September 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

commercial

free development license

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, limited

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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