DBMS > LMDB vs. MySQL vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Rdb vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison LMDB vs. MySQL vs. OpenEdge vs. Oracle Rdb vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#78	Overall
	#42	Relational DBMS

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Website

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

www.mysql.com

www.progress.com/openedge

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

www.lmdb.tech/doc

dev.mysql.com/doc

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Symas

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Progress Software Corporation

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Initial release

2011

1995

1984

2017

Current release

0.9.32, January 2024

9.0.0, July 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

7.4.1.1, 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

with proprietary extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON 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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users and groups

Role-based access control

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