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System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. ObjectBox vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.00
Rank	#193	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	1.22
Rank	#172	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.96
Rank	#103	Overall
	#18	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

objectbox.io

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

Oracle

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2005

2017

2011

1998

Current release

23.3, December 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

yes

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

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In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

Vector Database Release for Flutter / Dart + Python
13 June 2023

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