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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Realm vs. SQLite vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

realm.io

www.sqlite.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

realm.io/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Percona

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Dwayne Richard Hipp

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2008

2014

2000

2018

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

8.0.36-28, 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

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

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

none

Journaling Streams

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

Role-based access control

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