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System Properties Comparison H2GIS vs. JSqlDb vs. ObjectBox vs. PouchDB vs. TinkerGraph

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Spatial extension of H2

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

www.h2gis.org

jsqldb.org (offline)

objectbox.io

pouchdb.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.objectbox.io

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

CNRS

Konrad von Backstrom

ObjectBox Limited

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2013

2018

2017

2012

2009

Current release

0.8, December 2018

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

JavaScript

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

functions in JavaScript

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

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

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

using RocksDB

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

optional

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

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23 April 2024

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15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

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