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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. ObjectBox vs. SQLite vs. Transbase vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

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

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Graph DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

dgraph.io

objectbox.io

www.sqlite.org

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

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

dgraph.io/docs

docs.objectbox.io

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

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

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Transaction Software GmbH

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2016

2017

2000

1987

1999

Current release

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication via Raft

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

Planned for future releases

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

News

Edge AI: The era of on-device AI
23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

Vector Databases for Edge AI
9 August 2023

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

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