DBMS > LMDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenEdge vs. SQLite vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison LMDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. OpenEdge vs. SQLite vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

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

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

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

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

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

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

www.progress.com/openedge

www.sqlite.org

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

www.lmdb.tech/doc

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Symas

Microsoft

Progress Software Corporation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2011

1992

1984

2000

2017

Current release

0.9.32, January 2024

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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 (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

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

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

Users and groups

Role-based access control

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