DBMS > Altibase vs. mSQL vs. ObjectBox vs. OrigoDB vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. mSQL vs. ObjectBox vs. OrigoDB vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.07
Rank	#186	Overall
	#87	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

objectbox.io

origodb.com

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

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

docs.objectbox.io

origodb.com/docs

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Altibase

Hughes Technologies

ObjectBox Limited

Robert Friberg et al

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

1999

1994

2017

2009

under the name LiveDB

2014

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Role based authorization

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

More information provided by the system vendor

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