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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Machbase Neo vs. MaxDB vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Description

JavaScript DBMS library

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	0.22
Rank	#324	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.65
Rank	#111	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.22
Rank	#172	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

github.com/AlaSQL/alasql

machbase.com/dbms

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Andrey Gershun & Mathias R. Wulff

Machbase

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2014

2013

1984

2017

Current release

V8.0, August 2023

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
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.

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JavaScript API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

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

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

volatile and lookup table

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

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23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
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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