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System Properties Comparison LMDB vs. Riak KV vs. STSdb vs. Tigris

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

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

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	3.84
Rank	#76	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	0.05
Rank	#359	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#52	Key-value stores
	#23	Search engines
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Website

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

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

www.lmdb.tech/doc

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Symas

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

STS Soft SC

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

2011

2009

2011

2022

Current release

0.9.32, January 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X

Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.NET Client API

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C#
Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

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

yes, using Riak Security

Access rights for users and roles

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