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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Interbase vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenTSDB vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Light-weight proven RDBMS

originally from Borland

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	4.08
Rank	#75	Overall
	#41	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

objectbox.io

opentsdb.net

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.embarcadero.com/products/interbase

docs.objectbox.io

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Softmotions

Embarcadero

ObjectBox Limited

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

1984

2017

2011

2013

Current release

InterBase 2020, December 2019

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

export as XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Telnet API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Interbase procedure and trigger language

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Interbase Change Views

online/offline synchronization between client and server

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Multiversion concurreny control

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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