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DBMS > ObjectBox vs. QuestDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. QuestDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websiteobjectbox.ioquestdb.iowww.sequoiadb.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.ioquestdb.io/­docswww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedQuestDB Technology IncSequoiadb Ltd.Alex KashirinTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20172014201320201987
Current release0.5, April 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoGPL V3commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, RustC++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
proprietary protocol using JSONProprietary protocol
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C++C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJavaScriptnoyes
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replication with eventual consistencySource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID for single-table writesDocument is locked during a transactionyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infothrough memory mapped filesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyessimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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ObjectBoxQuestDBSequoiadbSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column DatabaseTransbase
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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