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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. ObjectBox vs. RethinkDB

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Name

Description

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.02
Rank	#362	Overall
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#174	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#11	Vector DBMS

Score	2.38
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Website

github.com/spotify/heroic

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.objectbox.io

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

Spotify

ObjectBox Limited

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2014

2017

2009

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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 Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

users and table-level permissions

More information provided by the system vendor

News

Why do we need Edge Computing for a sustainable future?
30 November 2024

IoT, Edge Computing, and Digitalization in Healthcare
22 November 2024

The Embedded Database for C++ and C
11 November 2024

The Critical Role of Databases for Edge AI
11 November 2024

Bi-directional Offline-First Data Sync with MongoDB and ObjectBox
21 October 2024

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