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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. OrientDB vs. Stardog vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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Name

Description

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

A distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	2.07
Rank	#122	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#371	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Website

objectbox.io

orientdb.org

www.stardog.com

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/stellardb

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

docs.stardog.com

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Stardog-Union

Transwarp

Initial release

2017

2010

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

7.3.0, May 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

OpenCypher

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#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

Triggers

Hooks

yes

via event handlers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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