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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. ObjectBox vs. RavenDB vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score8.22
Rank#50  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score1.22
Rank#172  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.01
Rank#101  Overall
#17  Document stores
Score0.15
Rank#337  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#347  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comobjectbox.ioravendb.netwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.objectbox.ioravendb.net/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperThomas MuellerObjectBox LimitedHibernating RhinosTransaction Software GmbHVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20052017201019872011
Current release2.2.220, July 20235.4, July 2022Transbase 8.3, 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availablecommercial infofree development licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C#C and C++C#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query language (RQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
.Net
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnoyesyesno
TriggersyesnoyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseonline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAuthorization levels configured per client per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication
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