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System Properties Comparison LMDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. mSQL vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle

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NameLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOracle  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryMicrosofts flagship relational DBMSmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileWidely used RDBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS infosince Oracle 23
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Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score821.56
Rank#3  Overall
#3  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score1244.08
Rank#1  Overall
#1  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlobjectbox.iowww.oracle.com/­database
Technical documentationwww.lmdb.tech/­doclearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdocs.objectbox.iodocs.oracle.com/­en/­database
DeveloperSymasMicrosoftHughes TechnologiesObjectBox LimitedOracle
Initial release20111989199420171980
Current release0.9.32, January 2024SQL Server 2022, November 20224.4, October 202123c, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++CC and C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes infoSchemaless in JSON and XML columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
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++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) JavanonoPL/SQL infoalso stored procedures in Java possible
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationnonenoneSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono infocan be realized in PL/SQL
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID infoisolation level can be parameterized
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnonoyes infoVersion 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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