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System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. ObjectBox vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

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

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

Description

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

objectbox.io

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

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

docs.objectbox.io

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

Microsoft

ObjectBox Limited

Sybase, SAP

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2018

2016

2017

1993

2008

Current release

0.8, December 2018

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

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++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

none

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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.

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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