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System Properties Comparison LMDB vs. NSDb vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	2.09
Rank	#121	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Website

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

nsdb.io

rocksdb.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

www.lmdb.tech/doc

nsdb.io/Architecture

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Symas

Facebook, Inc.

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2011

2017

2013

2018

Current release

0.9.32, January 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

C++ API
Java 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

Java
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

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