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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. HyperSQL vs. ObjectBox vs. Realm vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.49
Rank	#87	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.objectbox.io

realm.io/docs

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

ObjectBox Limited

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2012

2001

2017

2014

2011

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

2.7.2, June 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

Open Source

based on BSD license

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

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, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

News

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

Vector Database Release for Flutter / Dart + Python
13 June 2023

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