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System Properties Comparison H2 vs. ObjectBox vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TerminusDB

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NameH2  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  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 MobileEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
RDF store
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Score8.13
Rank#49  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.h2database.comobjectbox.iorocksdb.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.objectbox.iogithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikihelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhereterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperThomas MuellerObjectBox LimitedFacebook, Inc.SAP infoformerly SybaseDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release20052017201319922018
Current release2.2.220, July 20238.11.4, April 202417, July 201511.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native APIC++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnonoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioningnoneGraph Partitioning
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 serveryesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control
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