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System Properties Comparison HEAVY.AI vs. ObjectBox vs. SQLite vs. Tkrzw vs. Transbase

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NameHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
objectbox.iowww.sqlite.orgdbmx.net/­tkrzwwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.heavy.aidocs.objectbox.iowww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.ObjectBox LimitedDwayne Richard HippMikio HirabayashiTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20162017200020201987
Current release5.10, January 20223.45.3  (15 April 2024), April 20240.9.3, August 2020Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAC and C++CC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-lessLinux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infodynamic column typesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.noyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportednoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Proprietary native APIADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononoyes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoRound robinnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationonline/offline synchronization between client and servernonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infovia file-system locksyesyes
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.yesnoyesyes infousing specific database classesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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HEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022ObjectBoxSQLiteTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetTransbase
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