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System Properties Comparison Immudb vs. ObjectBox vs. PieCloudDB vs. SQLite vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

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

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	0.37
Rank	#271	Overall
	#127	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.openpie.com

www.sqlite.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.immudb.io

docs.objectbox.io

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Codenotary

ObjectBox Limited

OpenPie

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2020

2017

2000

1987

Current release

1.2.3, April 2022

4.0 (May 2024)

2.1, January 2023

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

hosted

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-like syntax

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Proprietary native API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

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
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

none

Source-replica replication

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

yes

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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