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System Properties Comparison KeyDB vs. ObjectBox vs. SQream DB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.63
Rank	#232	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#234	Overall
	#109	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

sqream.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.keydb.dev

docs.objectbox.io

docs.sqream.com

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

ObjectBox Limited

SQream Technologies

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2019

2017

2018

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

2022.1.6, December 2022

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD-3

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

Proprietary native API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions in Python

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

none

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control and ACL

yes

Role-based access control

More information provided by the system vendor

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18 June 2024

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29 May 2024

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