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DBMS > LMDB vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison LMDB vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SQLite

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NameLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSOracles in-memory data grid solutionWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score2.26
Rank#114  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#129  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbmaxdb.sap.comwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverwww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencewww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationwww.lmdb.tech/­docmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherencewww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperSymasSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997MicrosoftOracleDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release20111984198920072000
Current release0.9.32, January 20247.9.10.12, February 2024SQL Server 2022, November 202214.1, August 20233.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercial infoLimited community edition freecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialOpen Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
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
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Java
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javanono
Triggersnoyesyesyes infoLive Eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionyes, with selectable consistency levelnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDconfigurableACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationno

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