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System Properties Comparison HyperSQL vs. ObjectBox vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

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

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	3.28
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	1.12
Rank	#173	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#320	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

hsqldb.org

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

docs.objectbox.io

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2001

2017

2018

Current release

2.7.2, June 2023

4.0 (May 2024)

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

based on BSD license

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

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++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Role-based access control

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News

First on-device Vector Database (aka Semantic Index) for iOS
24 July 2024

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with vector databases: Expanding AI Capabilities
18 June 2024

The on-device Vector Database for Android and Java
29 May 2024

Vector search: making sense of search queries
29 May 2024

Python on-device Vector and Object Database for Local AI
28 May 2024

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