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System Properties Comparison MariaDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Prometheus vs. SQream DB vs. Trafodion

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NameMariaDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionMySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systema GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score93.21
Rank#13  Overall
#9  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websitemariadb.com infoSite of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org infoSite of MariaDB Foundation
objectbox.ioprometheus.iosqream.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationmariadb.com/­kb/­en/­librarydocs.objectbox.ioprometheus.io/­docsdocs.sqream.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperMariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) infoThe lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL
ObjectBox LimitedSQream TechnologiesApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2009 infoFork of MySQL, which was first released in 19952017201520172014
Current release11.3.2, February 20242022.1.6, December 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT MariaDB offers MariaDB in a fully managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant.
Implementation languageC and C++C and C++GoC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows infoColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyes infoDynamic columns are supportedyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Proprietary native APIRESTful HTTP/JSON API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoPL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3nonouser defined functions in PythonJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesseveral options for horizontal partitioning and ShardingnoneShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
online/offline synchronization between client and serveryes infoby Federationnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infonot for in-memory storage engineyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infowith MEMORY storage enginenonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Specific characteristicsMariaDB is the most powerful open source relational database – modern SQL and JSON...
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Competitive advantagesMariaDB Servers have many features unavailable in other open source relational databases....
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Typical application scenariosWeb, SaaS and Cloud operational applications that require high availability, scalability...
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Key customersDeutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens Featured...
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Market metricsMariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMariaDB plc subscriptions cover our free, open source database, Community Server,...
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