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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Lovefield vs. MySQL vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Widely used open source RDBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#189	Overall
	#88	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

altibase.com

google.github.io/lovefield

www.mysql.com

objectbox.io

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Altibase

Google

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

1999

2014

1995

2017

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

8.4.0, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

JavaScript

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication
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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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