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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
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Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.12
Rank#348  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.postgres-xl.orgswaydb.simer.auwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.iowww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedSimer PlahaTranswarp
Initial release20172014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2018
Current release4.0 (May 2024)10 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CScala
Server operating systemsAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyesnoyes
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 functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlinenone
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 dataACIDACID infoMVCCAtomic execution of operations
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno
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