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System Properties Comparison Apache HBase vs. ObjectBox

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Name

Description

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

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

Primary database model

Wide column store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	24.75
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#174	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#11	Vector DBMS

Website

hbase.apache.org

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

Technical documentation

hbase.apache.org/book.html

docs.objectbox.io

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

ObjectBox Limited

Initial release

2008

2017

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

4.0 (May 2024)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

options to bring your own types, AVRO

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

yes

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