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System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. EJDB vs. Newts vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Website

blueflood.io

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

opennms.github.io/newts

objectbox.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.objectbox.io

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Rackspace

Softmotions

OpenNMS Group

ObjectBox Limited

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2013

2012

2014

2017

1992

Current release

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

predefined scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

in-process shared library

HTTP REST
Java API

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Java

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

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21 May 2024

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16 May 2024

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23 April 2024

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15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

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