DBMS > Brytlyt vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Brytlyt vs. LMDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. XTDB

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	1.99
Rank	#125	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

brytlyt.io

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

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.brytlyt.io

www.lmdb.tech/doc

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Brytlyt

Symas

Microsoft

Sybase, SAP

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2011

1989

1993

2019

Current release

5.0, August 2023

0.9.32, January 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++ and CUDA

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

.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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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