DBMS > MySQL vs. NuoDB vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenEdge vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. NuoDB vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenEdge vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.51
Rank	#86	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mysql.com

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

objectbox.io

www.progress.com/openedge

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

doc.nuodb.com

docs.objectbox.io

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

Progress Software Corporation

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1995

2013

2017

1984

1987

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Java, SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

online/offline synchronization between client and server

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

MVCC

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.

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

Users and groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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