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System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. RocksDB 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

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

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

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

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

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	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

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

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

opentsdb.net

rocksdb.org

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

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

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.tdengine.com

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Google

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Facebook, Inc.

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

2011

2013

2019

2022

Current release

1.23, February 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

BSD

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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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Telnet API

C++ API
Java 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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning

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

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

yes

Access rights for users and roles

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Market metrics

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