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System Properties Comparison LMDB vs. Lovefield vs. OrientDB vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

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

google.github.io/lovefield

orientdb.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

www.lmdb.tech/doc

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Symas

Google

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2011

2014

2010

2020

Current release

0.9.32, January 2024

2.1.12, February 2017

3.2.29, March 2024

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

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

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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