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System Properties Comparison NSDb vs. ObjectBox vs. OushuDB vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

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

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#387	Overall
	#61	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

nsdb.io

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

swaydb.simer.au

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

Technical documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.objectbox.io

www.oushu.com/documentation

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

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Oushu

Simer Plaha

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2017

2018

1987

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

4.0.1, August 2020

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

C and C++

Scala

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java
Scala

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

C
C++

Java
Kotlin
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Using Apache Lucene

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

yes

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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