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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL vs. Snowflake vs. STSdb

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Websiteobjectbox.iowww.postgres-xl.orgwww.snowflake.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.html
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedSnowflake Computing Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release20172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20142011
Current release10 R1, October 20184.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC and C++CC#
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
hostedWindows
Data schemeyesyesyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityyes
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyesno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningyesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryesnone
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 integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoMVCCACIDno
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 controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationno
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ObjectBoxPostgres-XLSnowflakeSTSdb
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