LMDB Alternatives

LMDB is described as 'An ultra-fast, ultra-compact, crash-proof key-value embedded data store' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to LMDB for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, Android and Self-Hosted solutions. The best alternative is SQLite, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like LMDB are Firebird, LemonGraph, UnQLite and ObjectBox.

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LMDB

Free • Open Source

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An ultra-fast, ultra-compact, crash-proof key-value embedded data store.

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SQLite
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Free • Open Source
Relational Database
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Self-Hosted
61 alternatives to SQLite
SQLite is a software library that implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional SQL database engine. SQLite is the most widely deployed SQL database engine in the world. The source code for SQLite is in the public domain.
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1. LightweightSQLite consumes less device resources compared to similar apps.
File Based Storage
In-memory database
Web-Database
Import from SqlServer
Embeddable
In-process file-based
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Firebird
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Free • Open Source
Relational Database
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45 alternatives to Firebird
Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-92 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms. Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers.

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LemonGraph
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Free • Open Source
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19 alternatives to LemonGraph
An embedded transactional graph engine for Python backed by a LMDB file. Works with Python 2.6, 2.7 and 3.x.
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Graph database
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UnQLite
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Free • Open Source
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Linux
35 alternatives to UnQLite
UnQLite is a in-process software library which implements a self-contained, serverless, zero-configuration, transactional NoSQL database engine. UnQLite is a document store database similar to MongoDB, Redis, CouchDB etc.
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In-process file-based
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ObjectBox
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Free • Proprietary
Online
Android
Self-Hosted
4 alternatives to ObjectBox
ObjectBox DB is an easy & fast object-oriented mobile database for Android, Linux, soon iOS. It supports relations, JavaRx, Kotlin. It is 10X faster than SQLite. And POJOs are POJOs.
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Object storage
Object-oriented Language
C++
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Kyoto Cabinet
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Free • Open Source
Mac
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Linux
7 alternatives to Kyoto Cabinet
Kyoto Cabinet is a library of routines for managing a database. The database is a simple data file containing records, each is a pair of a key and a value. Every key and value is serial bytes with variable length.

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QDBM
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Free • Open Source
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7 alternatives to QDBM
QDBM is a library of routines for managing a database. The database is a simple data file containing records, each is a pair of a key and a value. Every key and value is serial bytes with variable length. Both binary data and character string can be used as a key and a value.

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Tokyo Cabinet
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Free • Open Source
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7 alternatives to Tokyo Cabinet
Tokyo Cabinet is a library of routines for managing a database. The database is a simple data file containing records, each is a pair of a key and a value. Every key and value is serial bytes with variable length.

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LevelDB
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Free • Open Source
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Linux
Android
7 alternatives to LevelDB
LevelDB stores keys and values in arbitrary byte arrays, and data is sorted by key. It supports batching writes, forward and backward iteration, and compression of the data via Google's Snappy compression library.

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Berkeley DB
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Free • Open Source
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8 alternatives to Berkeley DB
Berkeley DB (BDB) is a software library that provides a high-performance embedded database for key/value data., Berkeley DB is the most widely used database toolkit in the world, with hundreds of millions of deployed copies.

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