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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. PostGIS vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

objectbox.io

postgis.net

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

postgis.net/documentation

docs.siridb.com

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Cesbit

Initial release

2017

2005

2017

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

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

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on PostgreSQL

simple rights management via user accounts

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