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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. ObjectBox vs. RocksDB vs. Transbase vs. YottaDB

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NameMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used open source RDBMSExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIObject oriented DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1083.74
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.65
Rank#85  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#317  Overall
#47  Key-value stores
Websitewww.mysql.comobjectbox.iorocksdb.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlyottadb.com
Technical documentationdev.mysql.com/­docdocs.objectbox.iogithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunObjectBox LimitedFacebook, Inc.Transaction Software GmbHYottaDB, LLC
Initial release19952017201319872001
Current release8.4.0, April 20248.11.4, April 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoBSDcommercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++C++C and C++C
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesno
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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsnonoyesby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Proprietary native APIC++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesAda
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 infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoproprietary syntaxnonoyes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabricnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
online/offline synchronization between client and serveryesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACIDyesyesoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms
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