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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. RDF4J vs. RocksDB vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

RDF store

Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	2.84
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

rdf4j.org

rocksdb.org

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

rdf4j.org/documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Facebook, Inc.

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2017

2004

2013

2008

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

9.4.0, June 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

RDF Schemas

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

none

yes

none

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

More information provided by the system vendor

News

MongoDB Realm & Device Sync alternatives – ObjectBox
17 September 2024

Local AI – what it is and why we need it
11 September 2024

First on-device Vector Database (aka Semantic Index) for iOS
24 July 2024

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with vector databases: Expanding AI Capabilities
18 June 2024

The on-device Vector Database for Android and Java
29 May 2024

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