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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. Oracle Coherence vs. TigerGraph vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.02
Rank	#131	Overall
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Score	1.83
Rank	#141	Overall
	#13	Graph DBMS

Score	1.35
Rank	#165	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

objectbox.io

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.tigergraph.com

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

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

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

docs.tigergraph.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Oracle

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2017

2007

2017

1998

Current release

14.1, August 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

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++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

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

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

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

C++
Java

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Live Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes, with selectable consistency level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Role-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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