Tokyo Cabinet

Based on 586 responses from 176 people, we've built up the following picture of Tokyo Cabinet

Ranked high for:

  1. This database is good for performing many small operations on data
  2. This database has very good read performance
  3. This database has very good write performance
  4. This database is good for querying graph structures
  5. This database can be a bit arcane
  6. This database is good at high concurrency writes
  7. This database has a very flexible data model
  8. This database would be good for embedding in an application
  9. This database is very easy to get started with
  10. This database is good for heavily mathematical operations on data

Ranked low for:

  1. This database is very reliable
  2. There are good open source tools for working with this database
  3. This database has a good community around it
  4. This database is good at high concurrency reads
  5. There are bindings for a variety of different languages to talk to this database
  6. There are good commercial tools for working with this database
  7. I am familiar with this database
  8. This database is highly scalable
  9. It is easy to construct ad-hoc queries against this database
  10. This database has a good story for replication

Most similar to

  1. Phoenix
  2. SQLAnywhere
  3. dbm
  4. Redis
  5. Voldemort

Most dissimilar from

  1. MySQL
  2. PostgreSQL
  3. kdb
  4. MSSQL Server
  5. Oracle

All statements

  1. This database is good for performing many small operations on data
  2. This database has very good read performance
  3. This database has very good write performance
  4. This database is good for querying graph structures
  5. This database can be a bit arcane
  6. This database is good at high concurrency writes
  7. This database has a very flexible data model
  8. This database would be good for embedding in an application
  9. This database is very easy to get started with
  10. This database is good for heavily mathematical operations on data
  11. This database has a low footprint
  12. This database is easy for non-programmers to use
  13. This database has a very restrictive data model
  14. This database is good for performing complex operations on large amounts of data
  15. This database has an unusual data model
  16. This database is good for querying time series
  17. This database has a good story for replication
  18. It is easy to construct ad-hoc queries against this database
  19. This database is highly scalable
  20. I am familiar with this database
  21. There are good commercial tools for working with this database
  22. There are bindings for a variety of different languages to talk to this database
  23. This database is good at high concurrency reads
  24. This database has a good community around it
  25. There are good open source tools for working with this database
  26. This database is very reliable