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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. ObjectBox vs. PlanetScale

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

Scalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of Vitess

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1022.76
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.10
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#10	Vector DBMS

Score	0.99
Rank	#185	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mysql.com

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

planetscale.com

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.objectbox.io

planetscale.com/docs

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

ObjectBox Limited

PlanetScale

Initial release

1995

2017

2020

Current release

9.0.0, July 2024

4.0 (May 2024)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

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 (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Sharding

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

Multi-source replication
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 across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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 with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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