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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. ObjectBox vs. Sequoiadb vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Cloud-based data warehousing service

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#386	Overall
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	1.10
Rank	#173	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#10	Vector DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#267	Overall
	#42	Document stores
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#359	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.sequoiadb.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

docs.objectbox.io

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Mobiland AG

IBM

ObjectBox Limited

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2018

2014

2017

2013

1987

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

4.0 (May 2024)

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Windows

hosted

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Proprietary native API

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL, SQL PL

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

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

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Windows-Profile

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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