DBMS > LMDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Snowflake vs. Tigris

System Properties Comparison LMDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Snowflake vs. Tigris

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Name

Description

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

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.99
Rank	#125	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#55	Key-value stores
	#24	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

opentsdb.net

www.snowflake.com

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

www.lmdb.tech/doc

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Symas

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

2011

2014

2022

Current release

0.9.32, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Telnet API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP 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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using FoundationDB

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, user roles and pluggable authentication

Access rights for users and roles

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