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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.35
Rank	#274	Overall
	#128	Relational DBMS

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

Score	1.04
Rank	#184	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

docs.objectbox.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

ObjectBox Limited

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2015

2017

1984

2000

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

4.0 (May 2024)

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

HP Open VMS

server-less

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

News

MongoDB Realm & Device Sync alternatives – ObjectBox
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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