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DBMS > Ingres vs. LMDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VelocityDB vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. LMDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. VelocityDB vs. YugabyteDB

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlvelocitydb.comwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingreswww.lmdb.tech/­dochelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherevelocitydb.com/­UserGuidedocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperActian CorporationSymasSAP infoformerly SybaseVelocityDB IncYugabyte Inc.
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2011199220112017
Current release11.2, May 20220.9.32, January 202417, July 20157.x2.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCC#C and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NETLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesnoyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.NetJDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
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
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.NetC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlnoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
TriggersyesnoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynonenoneShardingHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres ReplicatornoneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authenticationyes
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IngresLMDBSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereVelocityDBYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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