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

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

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NameLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA 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.An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDBA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APITime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
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
Score0.20
Rank#310  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Score0.05
Rank#355  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.mysql.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolwww.speedb.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.lmdb.tech/­docdev.mysql.com/­docoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperSymasOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunTobias OetikerSpeedbTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20111995199920201987
Current release0.9.32, January 20249.0.0, July 20241.8.0, 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC and C++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlynoyes
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.noyesno infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnonoyes
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 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
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++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoproprietary syntaxnonoyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabricnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyesyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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