DBMS > BoltDB vs. EsgynDB vs. ObjectBox vs. RDF4J vs. RisingWave

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. EsgynDB vs. ObjectBox vs. RDF4J vs. RisingWave

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.74
Rank	#220	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	0.58
Rank	#242	Overall
	#111	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.esgyn.cn

objectbox.io

rdf4j.org

www.risingwave.com/database

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

Developer

Esgyn

ObjectBox Limited

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

RisingWave Labs

Initial release

2013

2015

2017

2004

2022

Current release

1.2, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C and C++

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Java
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Users and Roles

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23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

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

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