DBMS > LMDB vs. Manticore Search vs. MySQL vs. RRDtool vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison LMDB vs. Manticore Search vs. MySQL vs. RRDtool vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The 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 model

Key-value store

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.94
Rank	#120	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.70
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

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

manticoresearch.com

www.mysql.com

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

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

Technical documentation

www.lmdb.tech/doc

manual.manticoresearch.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

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

Developer

Symas

Manticore Software

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Tobias Oetiker

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2011

2017

1995

1999

1987

Current release

0.9.32, January 2024

6.0, February 2023

9.0.0, July 2024

1.8.0, 2022

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

HP-UX
Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Can index from XML

yes

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

in-process shared library
Pipes

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.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

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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