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System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. H2 vs. ObjectBox vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.61
Rank	#235	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

www.h2database.com

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.objectbox.io

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Thomas Mueller

ObjectBox Limited

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2005

2017

2018

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

4.0 (May 2024)

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

Journaling Streams

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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 access control

More information provided by the system vendor

News

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17 September 2024

Local AI – what it is and why we need it
11 September 2024

First on-device Vector Database (aka Semantic Index) for iOS
24 July 2024

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with vector databases: Expanding AI Capabilities
18 June 2024

The on-device Vector Database for Android and Java
29 May 2024

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