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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Trafodion

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#378	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Website

boilerbay.com

objectbox.io

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

docs.objectbox.io

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Boiler Bay Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

Sybase, SAP

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2002

2017

1993

2014

Current release

4.0

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Delphi
Perl
PHP

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

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Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
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13 June 2023

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