DBMS > LMDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. ReductStore vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison LMDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. ReductStore vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Designed to manage unstructured time-series data efficiently, providing unique features such as storing time-stamped blobs with labels, customizable data retention policies, and a straightforward FIFO quota system.

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

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.94
Rank	#120	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Score	807.76
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	32.67
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

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

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

github.com/reductstore
www.reduct.store

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

www.lmdb.tech/doc

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

www.reduct.store/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Symas

Microsoft

ReductStore LLC

SAP, Sybase

SAP

Initial release

2011

1989

2023

1987

2010

Current release

0.9.32, January 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

1.9, March 2024

16.0

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Business Source License 1.1

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Rust

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API

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

JDBC
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

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Java and Transact-SQL

SQLScript, R

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

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

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

yes

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