DBMS > LMDB vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Snowflake vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison LMDB vs. OpenEdge vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. Snowflake vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

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

Application development environment with integrated database management system

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

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Score	2.09
Rank	#121	Overall
	#20	Key-value stores

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.80
Rank	#138	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Website

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

www.progress.com/openedge

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

www.snowflake.com

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

www.lmdb.tech/doc

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

Symas

Progress Software Corporation

SAP, Sybase

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2011

1984

1987

2014

2017

Current release

0.9.32, January 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

16.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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

close to SQL 92

yes

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

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

CLI Client
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

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java and Transact-SQL

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

Relationships in graphs

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

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

Role-based access control

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