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System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. SAP HANA vs. Sequoiadb vs. TerminusDB vs. TiDB

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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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

Document store

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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	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	4.66
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/google/leveldb

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sequoiadb.com

terminusdb.com

pingcap.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

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

Developer

Google

SAP

Sequoiadb Ltd.

DataChemist Ltd.

PingCAP, Inc.

Initial release

2011

2010

2013

2018

2016

Current release

1.23, February 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

8.0.0, March 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Go, Rust

Server operating systems

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

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
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with TiSpark Connector

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

full support since version 6.6

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

in-memory journaling

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

Role-based access control

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics

34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing models

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