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System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Sequoiadb

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Name

Description

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.96
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	1.09
Rank	#173	Overall
	#7	Object oriented DBMS
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#273	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#126	Relational DBMS

Website

maxdb.sap.com

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.sequoiadb.com

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.objectbox.io

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

Developer

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

ObjectBox Limited

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Initial release

1984

2017

2013

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

4.0 (May 2024)

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

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++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

Proprietary native API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

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

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

simple password-based access control

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