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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. Oracle Coherence vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.22
Rank	#172	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#131	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	45.84
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

objectbox.io

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Oracle

SAP

Initial release

2017

2007

2010

Current release

14.1, August 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net
C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes, with selectable consistency level

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

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23 April 2024

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15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

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9 August 2023

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13 June 2023

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