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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenTSDB vs. Trino

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Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

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

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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

Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

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

Score	1.59
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.28
Rank	#61	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

opentsdb.net

trino.io

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.objectbox.io

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Developer

BaseX GmbH

ObjectBox Limited

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2007

2017

2011

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

11.2, August 2024

4.0 (May 2024)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

depending on connected data-source

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

SQL standard access control

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

23 is a go, keeping pace with Java
17 September 2024

65: Performance boosts
12 September 2024

64: Control with Open Policy Agent OPA
22 August 2024

63: Querying with JS
1 August 2024

62: A lakehouse that simply works at Prezi
11 July 2024

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