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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. ObjectBox vs. Trafodion

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Name

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

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.

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Rank	#175	Overall
	#7	Object oriented DBMS
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

docs.objectbox.io

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Mobiland AG

ObjectBox Limited

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2018

2017

2014

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

4.0 (May 2024)

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

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

ACID

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.

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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