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System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB 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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series 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	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/google/leveldb

www.sqlite.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

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

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.teradata.com

Developer

Google

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Alex Kashirin

Teradata

Initial release

2011

2000

2020

1984

Current release

1.23, February 2021

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

0.5, April 2021

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

.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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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