DBMS > LMDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SAP HANA vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison LMDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. SAP HANA vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

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

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#354	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Website

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

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

terminusdb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

www.lmdb.tech/doc

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

help.sap.com/hana

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

Symas

Percona

SAP

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2011

2008

2010

2018

2011

Current release

0.9.32, January 2024

8.0.36-28, 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Linux

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

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
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

yes

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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 journaling

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

yes

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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