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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenEdge vs. Riak KV

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1087.72
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.22
Rank	#172	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.75
Rank	#88	Overall
	#47	Relational DBMS

Score	4.44
Rank	#80	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Website

www.mysql.com

objectbox.io

www.progress.com/openedge

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.objectbox.io

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

ObjectBox Limited

Progress Software Corporation

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1995

2017

1984

2009

Current release

8.3.0, January 2024

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

3.2.0, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

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

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)

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

links between data sets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

Users and groups

yes, using Riak Security

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