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DBMS > ObjectBox vs. PostGIS vs. Riak KV vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. PostGIS vs. Riak KV vs. Trafodion

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
postgis.nettrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.iopostgis.net/­documentationwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latesttrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2017200520092014
Current release4.0 (May 2024)3.4.2, February 20243.2.0, December 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CErlangC++, Java
Server operating systemsAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyesnoyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesrestrictedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsErlangJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineyes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable replication factoryes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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