DBMS > Newts vs. ObjectBox vs. Realm vs. RocksDB vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison Newts vs. ObjectBox vs. Realm vs. RocksDB vs. Teradata

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Name

Description

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
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Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	45.33
Rank	#21	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

opennms.github.io/newts

Technical documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.objectbox.io

realm.io/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.teradata.com

Developer

OpenNMS Group

ObjectBox Limited

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Facebook, Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

2014

2017

2014

2013

1984

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST
Java API

Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

yes

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

News

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21 May 2024

The first On-Device Vector Database: ObjectBox 4.0
16 May 2024

Edge AI: The era of on-device AI
23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

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