DBMS > LMDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Sadas Engine vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison LMDB vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Sadas Engine vs. SWC-DB

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Name

Description

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

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.99
Rank	#125	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

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

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

www.sadasengine.com

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

www.lmdb.tech/doc

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

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Symas

Microsoft

SADAS s.r.l.

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2011

1989

2006

2020

Current release

0.9.32, January 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

8.0

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

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

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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