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DBMS > ObjectBox vs. OpenTSDB vs. Prometheus vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. OpenTSDB vs. Prometheus vs. Realm

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
opentsdb.netprometheus.iorealm.io
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.ioopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlprometheus.io/­docsrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperObjectBox Limitedcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release2017201120152014
Current release4.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++JavaGo
Server operating systemsAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, plus "flex" map-like typesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsNumeric data onlyyes
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.nonono infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIHTTP API
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersnononoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on HBaseShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes infoby Federationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBasenoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonoyes
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