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System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. MySQL vs. OpenTSDB vs. TDengine vs. Tigris

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Name

Description

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Widely used open source RDBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

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

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.60
Rank	#107	Overall
	#8	Time Series DBMS

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

Website

github.com/google/leveldb

www.mysql.com

opentsdb.net

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

dev.mysql.com/doc

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

docs.tdengine.com

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Google

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

2011

1995

2011

2019

2022

Current release

1.23, February 2021

8.4.0, April 2024

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

with proprietary extensions

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

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

no user groups or roles

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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