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DBMS > ObjectBox vs. PostGIS vs. SQLite vs. TempoIQ vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. PostGIS vs. SQLite vs. TempoIQ vs. Trafodion

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.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 MobileSpatial extension of PostgreSQLWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score114.32
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Websiteobjectbox.iopostgis.netwww.sqlite.orgtempoiq.com (offline)trafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.iopostgis.net/­documentationwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedDwayne Richard HippTempoIQApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20172005200020122014
Current release3.4.2, February 20243.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 20242.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoPublic DomaincommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++CCC++, Java
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-lessLinux
Data schemeyesyesyes infodynamic column typesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yesyes
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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportednoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
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
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonoJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyesyesyes infoRealtime Alertsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryes infobased on PostgreSQLnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infovia file-system locksyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnosimple authentication-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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