DBMS > Derby vs. Manticore Search vs. MySQL vs. ObjectBox vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Derby vs. Manticore Search vs. MySQL vs. ObjectBox vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

Widely used open source RDBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#302	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

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

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

manual.manticoresearch.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.objectbox.io

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

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Manticore Software

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

ObjectBox Limited

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1997

2017

1995

2017

1987

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

6.0, February 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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

Can index from XML

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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