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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. GeoSpock vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SQLite

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.57
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

geospock.com

objectbox.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

docs.objectbox.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

GeoSpock

ObjectBox Limited

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2018

2017

1984

2000

Current release

0.10, February 2024

2.0, September 2019

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, Javascript

C and C++

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

HP Open VMS

server-less

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

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, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

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

Access rights for users can be defined per table

yes

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