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System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. MarkLogic vs. ObjectBox vs. OrientDB vs. Stardog

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Operational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL database

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store

as of version 7
Search engine

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	5.92
Rank	#58	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#1	Native XML DBMS
	#1	RDF stores
	#6	Search engines

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.marklogic.com

docs.objectbox.io

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

docs.stardog.com

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

MarkLogic Corp.

ObjectBox Limited

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Stardog-Union

Initial release

2018

2001

2017

2010

Current release

0.8, December 2018

11.0, December 2022

3.2.29, March 2024

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL92

SQL-like query language, no joins

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

APIs and other access methods

Java API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API

Proprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT

Proprietary native API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

yes

via XQuery or JavaScript

Java, Javascript

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

yes

Hooks

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobs

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

can act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, with Range Indexes

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control at the document and subdocument levels

yes

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Access rights for users and roles

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14 November 2023

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