DBMS > LMDB vs. RavenDB vs. RocksDB vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison LMDB vs. RavenDB vs. RocksDB vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

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

ravendb.net

rocksdb.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

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

Technical documentation

www.lmdb.tech/doc

ravendb.net/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

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

Developer

Symas

Hibernating Rhinos

Facebook, Inc.

Alex Kashirin

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2011

2010

2013

2020

1987

Current release

0.9.32, January 2024

5.4, July 2022

8.11.4, April 2024

0.5, April 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (RQL)

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

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

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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