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DBMS > ObjectBox vs. Pinecone vs. Trafodion vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. Pinecone vs. Trafodion vs. VelocityDB

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA managed, cloud-native vector databaseTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteobjectbox.iowww.pinecone.iotrafodion.apache.orgvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.iodocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedPinecone Systems, IncApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2017201920142011
Current release2.3.0, February 20197.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++, JavaC#
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
PythonAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresno
TriggersnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication
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