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System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. Spark SQL vs. TerminusDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	2.75
Rank	#107	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	19.15
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#323	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#337	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/google/leveldb

spark.apache.org/sql

terminusdb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

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

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Google

Apache Software Foundation

DataChemist Ltd.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2011

2014

2018

1987

Current release

1.23, February 2021

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Prolog, Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Java
Python
R
Scala

JavaScript
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Journaling Streams

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

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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