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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. OushuDB vs. ScyllaDB vs. Splice Machine vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

objectbox.io

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

www.scylladb.com

splicemachine.com

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

www.oushu.com/documentation

docs.scylladb.com

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Oushu

ScyllaDB

Splice Machine

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2017

2015

2014

2012

Current release

4.0.1, August 2020

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

3.1, March 2021

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
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

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
C++

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, Lua

yes

Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Sharding

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

in-memory tables

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Highly-performant (efficiently utilizes full resources of a node and network; millions...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Discord, Epic Games, Expedia, Zillow, Comcast, Disney+ Hotstar, Samsung, ShareChat,...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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