DBMS > LMDB vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison LMDB vs. MaxDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	2.09
Rank	#121	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Score	2.26
Rank	#114	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

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

maxdb.sap.com

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

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

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

Technical documentation

www.lmdb.tech/doc

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Symas

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Microsoft

SAP, Sybase

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2011

1984

1989

1987

2019

Current release

0.9.32, January 2024

7.9.10.12, February 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

16.0

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

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 C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

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

Data scheme

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

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

HTTP REST
JDBC

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

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

Java and Transact-SQL

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

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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