DBMS > EXASOL vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenEdge vs. OushuDB vs. RDF4J

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenEdge vs. OushuDB vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.99
Rank	#124	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

www.exasol.com

objectbox.io

www.progress.com/openedge

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

rdf4j.org

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.objectbox.io

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.oushu.com/documentation

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Exasol

ObjectBox Limited

Progress Software Corporation

Oushu

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2000

2017

1984

2004

Current release

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

close to SQL 92

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C++

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

Users and groups

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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News

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21 May 2024

The first On-Device Vector Database: ObjectBox 4.0
16 May 2024

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

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15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

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