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System Properties Comparison LMDB vs. Riak KV vs. SiriDB vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

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

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Open Source Time Series DBMS

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

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

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	4.01
Rank	#79	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

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

siridb.com

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

www.lmdb.tech/doc

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

docs.siridb.com

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Symas

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Cesbit

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2011

2009

2017

2022

Current release

0.9.32, January 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Erlang

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

HTTP API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

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
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

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"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

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

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

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

simple rights management via user accounts

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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