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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. ObjectBox vs. OrientDB vs. Stardog vs. Tkrzw

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.07
Rank#372  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicobjectbox.ioorientdb.orgwww.stardog.comdbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.objectbox.iowww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmldocs.stardog.com
DeveloperSpotifyObjectBox LimitedOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPStardog-UnionMikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20142017201020102020
Current release3.2.29, March 20247.3.0, May 20200.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.nononono infoImport/export of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language, no joinsYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Serverno
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Proprietary native APITinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava, Javascriptuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javano
TriggersnonoHooksyes infovia event handlersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesonline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication in HA-Clusternone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes inforelationship in graphsyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableAccess rights for users and rolesno
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