DBMS > LevelDB vs. Snowflake vs. Sqrrl vs. Tkrzw vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. Snowflake vs. Sqrrl vs. Tkrzw vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

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

Adaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache Accumulo

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store

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

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#340	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#50	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/google/leveldb

www.snowflake.com

sqrrl.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Google

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Amazon

originally Sqrrl Data, Inc.

Mikio Hirabayashi

Yandex

Initial release

2011

2014

2012

2020

2023

Current release

1.23, February 2021

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS

Ubuntu

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
C

using GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

making use of Hadoop

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

making use of Hadoop

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Document store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic updates per row, document, or graph entity

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

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

Cell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)

Access Control Lists

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