DBMS > BaseX vs. ObjectBox vs. Speedb vs. SQLite vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. ObjectBox vs. Speedb vs. SQLite vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

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

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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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	0.20
Rank	#310	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.speedb.io

www.sqlite.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.objectbox.io

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

BaseX GmbH

ObjectBox Limited

Speedb

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2007

2017

2020

2000

2014

Current release

11.2, August 2024

4.0 (May 2024)

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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++

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

yes

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

yes

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

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