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DBMS > LMDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Vertica vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison LMDB vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Vertica vs. Vitess

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NameLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn orientedRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score77.99
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score10.68
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.vertica.comvitess.io
Technical documentationwww.lmdb.tech/­docdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlvertica.com/­documentationvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperSymasMicrosoftOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett PackardThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release2011201020052013
Current release0.9.32, January 2024V1212.0.3, January 202315.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containersno
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Implementation languageCC++C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
hostedLinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.yes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
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
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQLyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differencesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnoyesyes, called Custom Alertsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, with always 3 replicas availableMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infoBi-directional Spark integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hashUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles
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LMDBMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL AzureVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™Vitess
Specific characteristicsDeploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Competitive advantagesFast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Typical application scenariosCommunication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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