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System Properties Comparison LMDB vs. OrientDB vs. Snowflake vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

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

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.33
Rank	#118	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	3.27
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#15	Key-value stores

Score	123.20
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

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

orientdb.org

www.snowflake.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

www.lmdb.tech/doc

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Symas

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2011

2010

2014

2008

Current release

0.9.32, January 2024

3.2.29, March 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

user defined functions

Triggers

Hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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

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