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DBMS > LMDB vs. PostGIS vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison LMDB vs. PostGIS vs. Spark SQL vs. Trafodion vs. YottaDB

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NameLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  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 librarySpatial extension of PostgreSQLSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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Score1.99
Rank#125  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websitewww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbpostgis.netspark.apache.org/­sqltrafodion.apache.orgyottadb.com
Technical documentationwww.lmdb.tech/­docpostgis.net/­documentationspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperSymasApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPYottaDB, LLC
Initial release20112005201420142001
Current release0.9.32, January 20243.4.2, February 20243.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCScalaC++, JavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxDocker
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 indexesnoyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
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
Java
Python
R
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneyes, via HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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