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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Dgraph vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. ObjectBox vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.49
Rank	#259	Overall
	#40	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#158	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#374	Overall
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.22
Rank	#172	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.15
Rank	#337	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

dgraph.io/docs

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

docs.objectbox.io

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Community supported by Red Hat

ObjectBox Limited

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2016

2014

2017

1987

Current release

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

HTTP REST

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication via Raft

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

only for local storage and DOM-storage

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorage

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

Planned for future releases

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

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15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

Vector Database Release for Flutter / Dart + Python
13 June 2023

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7 June 2023

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