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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. Oracle Rdb vs. OrigoDB vs. SQLite vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

objectbox.io

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

origodb.com

www.sqlite.org

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

origodb.com/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Robert Friberg et al

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2017

1984

2009

under the name LiveDB

2000

2014

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ADO.NET
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

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Source-replica replication

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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