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System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQL.JS vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.45
Rank	#261	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#122	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/google/leveldb

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sequoiadb.com

sql.js.org

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

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

help.sap.com/hana

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Google

SAP

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Teradata

Initial release

2011

2010

2013

2012

1984

Current release

1.23, February 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

JavaScript API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

JavaScript

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

none

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

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

yes

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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