LevelDB is Google's embedded key/value store that uses similar design concepts as the BigTable Tablet
- https://github.com/nulayer/NULevelDB/blob/master/Classes/NULDBUtilities.mm
- https://github.com/hoisie/LevelDB-ObjC/blob/master/Classes/LevelDB.mm
- https://github.com/preble/APLevelDB/blob/master/APLevelDB/APLevelDB.mm
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LevelDB
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2526032
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2526263 - Chrome uses leveldb as the back-end for IndexedDB 1 2 3
- http://nparashuram.com/IndexedDB/
- http://leveldb.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/index.html
- http://www.quora.com/LevelDB
- Optimizing LevelDB for Performance and Scale - YouTube
- https://github.com/couchbaselabs/TouchDB-iOS/wiki/Guide%3A-Data-Model
- https://github.com/couchbase/couchbase-lite-ios/wiki/Guide%3A-Data-Model
- https://github.com/Softmotions/ejdb - Uses key/data store as backend to create a nosql database
- http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/hstore.html
- https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-c - Enhanced JSON serialization
Benchmark (2011), compares LevelDB (revision 39) against SQLite3 (version 3.7.6.3) and Kyoto Cabinet's (version 1.2.67) TreeDB (a B+Tree based key-value store):
http://leveldb.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/benchmark.html
Benchmark (2012), compares LevelDB version 1.5 (git rev dd0d562b4d4fbd07db6a44f9e221f8d368fee8e4), SQLite3 (version 3.7.7.1) and Kyoto Cabinet's (version 1.2.76) TreeDB (a B+Tree based key-value store), Berkeley DB 5.3.21, and OpenLDAP MDB (git rev 2e677bcb995b63d36461eea254f2134ebfe29da2)
http://symas.com/mdb/microbench/
Bottom line: LevelDB is >= Sqlite3 (performance-wise)