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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Postgres-XL vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

objectbox.io

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

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

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

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2017

1984

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2011

Current release

7.4.1.1, 2021

10 R1, October 2018

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux
macOS

Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes, on a single node

ACID

MVCC

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

News

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16 May 2024

Edge AI: The era of on-device AI
23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

Vector Databases for Edge AI
9 August 2023

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