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System Properties Comparison Immudb vs. ObjectBox vs. openGemini 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.

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.09
Rank	#361	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
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Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

objectbox.io

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

www.sqlite.org

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

Technical documentation

docs.immudb.io

docs.objectbox.io

docs.opengemini.org/guide

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

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

Developer

Codenotary

ObjectBox Limited

Huawei and openGemini community

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2020

2017

2022

2000

1987

Current release

1.2.3, April 2022

1.1, July 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

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

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

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
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

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

Administrators and common users accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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