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System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Snowflake vs. Tigris

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Name

Description

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

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

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

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#55	Key-value stores
	#24	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Website

github.com/google/leveldb

www.sequoiadb.com

www.snowflake.com

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

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

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Google

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

2011

2013

2014

2022

Current release

1.23, February 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

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 (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

yes, using FoundationDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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