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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. OpenSearch vs. Realm vs. Spark SQL vs. SQLite

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSSearch engineDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score16.03
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websiteobjectbox.iogithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
realm.iospark.apache.org/­sqlwww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.ioopensearch.org/­docs/­latestrealm.io/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedAmazon Web ServicesRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Apache Software FoundationDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release20172021201420142000
Current release2.5.0, January 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20233.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaScalaC
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Java
Python
R
Scala
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessarynono
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyes infoChange Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryesnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
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.noyes infoIn-Memory realmnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyesnono
More information provided by the system vendor
ObjectBoxOpenSearchRealmSpark SQLSQLite
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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