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System Properties Comparison chDB vs. ObjectBox vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB

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Name

Description

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

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

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Widely used in-process key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

supports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS

in the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.88
Rank	#130	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores
	#3	Native XML DBMS

Website

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

opentsdb.net

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/berkeleydb.html

Technical documentation

doc.chdb.io

docs.objectbox.io

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

docs.oracle.com/cd/E17076_05/html/index.html

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Oracle

originally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by Oracle

Initial release

2023

2017

2011

1994

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

18.1.40, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)

Server operating systems

server-less

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

only with the Berkeley DB XML edition

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL interfaced based on SQLite is available

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Telnet API

Supported programming languages

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

.Net

Figaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others

Third-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

only for the SQL API

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

News

MongoDB Realm & Device Sync alternatives – ObjectBox
17 September 2024

Local AI – what it is and why we need it
11 September 2024

First on-device Vector Database (aka Semantic Index) for iOS
24 July 2024

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with vector databases: Expanding AI Capabilities
18 June 2024

The on-device Vector Database for Android and Java
29 May 2024

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