DBMS > Hazelcast vs. jBASE vs. ObjectBox vs. PostGIS vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Hazelcast vs. jBASE vs. ObjectBox vs. PostGIS vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A widely adopted in-memory data grid

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

JSON support with IMDG 3.12

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	5.97
Rank	#57	Overall
	#6	Key-value stores

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

hazelcast.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

objectbox.io

postgis.net

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

hazelcast.org/imdg/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

docs.objectbox.io

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Hazelcast

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

ObjectBox Limited

TempoIQ

Initial release

2008

1991

2017

2005

2012

Current release

5.3.6, November 2023

5.7

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

yes

the object must implement a serialization strategy

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

APIs and other access methods

JCache
JPA
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

Proprietary native API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Event Listeners, Executor Services

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Events

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Replicated Map

yes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

based on PostgreSQL

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency selectable by user

Raft Consensus Algorithm

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

one or two-phase-commit; repeatable reads; read commited

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Role-based access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

based on PostgreSQL

simple authentication-based access control

More information provided by the system vendor

News

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16 May 2024

Edge AI: The era of on-device AI
23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

Vector Databases for Edge AI
9 August 2023

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