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

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NameLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft SQL Server  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  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 MobileTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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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
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­sql-serverhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlobjectbox.iogithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationwww.lmdb.tech/­doclearn.microsoft.com/­en-US/­sql/­sql-serverdocs.objectbox.iodocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperSymasMicrosoftHughes TechnologiesObjectBox LimitedTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release20111989199420172019
Current release0.9.32, January 2024SQL Server 2022, November 20224.4, October 20213.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++CC and C++C
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP 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++
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++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoTransact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Javanonono
Triggersnoyesnonoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonetables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federationnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, but depending on the SQL-Server Editionnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
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.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesyes
More information provided by the system vendor
LMDBMicrosoft SQL ServermSQL infoMini SQLObjectBoxTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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