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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. PostGIS vs. SiteWhere vs. SQLite

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileSpatial extension of PostgreSQLM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational 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
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websiteobjectbox.iopostgis.netgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewherewww.sqlite.org
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.iopostgis.net/­documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlwww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedSiteWhereDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release2017200520102000
Current release3.4.2, February 20243.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source infoPublic Domain
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++CJavaC
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyespredefined schemeyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIHTTP RESTADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
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
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infobased on HBasenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infovia file-system locks
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 controlyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno
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