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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. LMDB vs. OrientDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.71
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.33
Rank	#118	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	3.27
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#15	Key-value stores

Score	0.48
Rank	#260	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

orientdb.org

www.sequoiadb.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

www.lmdb.tech/doc

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

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

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Symas

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2013

2011

2010

2013

2000

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

0.9.32, January 2024

3.2.29, March 2024

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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 query language, no joins

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

JavaScript

Triggers

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

simple password-based access control

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