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DBMS > LMDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. ScyllaDB vs. Tkrzw vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison LMDB vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. ScyllaDB vs. Tkrzw vs. Trafodion

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NameLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryEnhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
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Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score2.03
Rank#122  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score4.75
Rank#68  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-serverwww.scylladb.comdbmx.net/­tkrzwtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.lmdb.tech/­docwww.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATESTdocs.scylladb.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperSymasPerconaScyllaDBMikio HirabayashiApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20112008201520202014
Current release0.9.32, January 20248.0.36-28, 2024ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 20240.9.3, August 20202.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C++C++C++, Java
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infocluster global secondary indicesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
ADO.NET
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
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes, LuanoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster
selectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possiblenoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoin-memory tablesyes infousing specific database classesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per objectnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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LMDBPercona Server for MySQLScyllaDBTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetTrafodion
Specific characteristicsScyllaDB is engineered to deliver predictable performance at scale. It’s adopted...
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Competitive advantagesHighly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenariosScyllaDB is ideal for applications that require high throughput and low latency at...
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Key customersDiscord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metricsScyllaDB typically offers ~75% total cost of ownership savings, with ~5X higher throughput...
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Licensing and pricing modelsScyllaDB Open Source - free open source software (AGPL) ScyllaDB Enterprise - subscription-based...
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