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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. PostGIS vs. SiteWhere

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileSpatial extension of PostgreSQLM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series 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
Websiteobjectbox.iopostgis.netgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.iopostgis.net/­documentationsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedSiteWhere
Initial release201720052010
Current release3.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC and C++CJava
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryes infobased on PostgreSQLselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
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 dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
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 PostgreSQLUsers with fine-grained authorization concept
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