DBMS > Axibase vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP HANA vs. SQLite vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP HANA vs. SQLite vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.29
Rank	#292	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

objectbox.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sqlite.org

sqream.com

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

help.sap.com/hana

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Axibase Corporation

ObjectBox Limited

SAP

Dwayne Richard Hipp

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2013

2017

2010

2000

2017

Current release

15585

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes, ANSI Standard SQL 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

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

via file-system locks

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

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

News

The first On-Device Vector Database: ObjectBox 4.0
16 May 2024

Edge AI: The era of on-device AI
23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

Vector Databases for Edge AI
9 August 2023

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