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DBMS > LMDB vs. ObjectBox vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison LMDB vs. ObjectBox vs. SurrealDB

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NameLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.94
Rank#120  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#174  Overall
#30  Document stores
#17  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
surrealdb.com
Technical documentationwww.lmdb.tech/­docdocs.objectbox.iosurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperSymasObjectBox LimitedSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release201120172022
Current release0.9.32, January 20244.0 (May 2024)v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC and C++Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
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++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesyes, based on authentication and database rules
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