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DBMS > LMDB vs. OpenEdge vs. PostgreSQL vs. TerminusDB vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison LMDB vs. OpenEdge vs. PostgreSQL vs. TerminusDB vs. TigerGraph

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NameLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryApplication development environment with integrated database management systemWidely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQLScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.Graph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
Document store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.94
Rank#120  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score3.69
Rank#78  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score644.36
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#152  Overall
#14  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.progress.com/­openedgewww.postgresql.orgterminusdb.comwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationwww.lmdb.tech/­docdocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestwww.postgresql.org/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#docs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperSymasProgress Software CorporationPostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developerDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release201119841989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL20182017
Current release0.9.32, January 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 202016.4, August 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCProlog, RustC++
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
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.noyesyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoclose to SQL 92yes infostandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (WOQL)SQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
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
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language).Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesyes
Triggersnoyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hashGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlRole-based access control

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