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DBMS > LevelDB vs. LMDB vs. MySQL vs. RRDtool vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. LMDB vs. MySQL vs. RRDtool vs. Transbase

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NameLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryWidely used open source RDBMSIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APITime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score2.33
Rank#111  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score1.94
Rank#120  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score1029.49
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score1.70
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#355  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.mysql.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdwww.lmdb.tech/­docdev.mysql.com/­docoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperGoogleSymasOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunTobias OetikerTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20112011199519991987
Current release1.23, February 20210.9.32, January 20249.0.0, July 20241.8.0, 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSDOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSScommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC and C++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC and C++
Server operating systemsIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesNumeric data onlyyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possibleno
Secondary indexesnonoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
in-process shared library
Pipes
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.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
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoproprietary syntaxnoyes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabricnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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