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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. ObjectBox vs. Riak KV vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	3.84
Rank	#76	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.62
Rank	#234	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Website

www.h2database.com

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

sqream.com

Technical documentation

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.objectbox.io

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Thomas Mueller

ObjectBox Limited

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2005

2017

2009

2017

Current release

2.2.220, July 2023

4.0 (May 2024)

3.2.0, December 2022

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Erlang

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

Erlang

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes, using Riak Security

More information provided by the system vendor

News

MongoDB Realm & Device Sync alternatives – ObjectBox
17 September 2024

Local AI – what it is and why we need it
11 September 2024

First on-device Vector Database (aka Semantic Index) for iOS
24 July 2024

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with vector databases: Expanding AI Capabilities
18 June 2024

The on-device Vector Database for Android and Java
29 May 2024

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