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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. RDF4J vs. SingleStore vs. Solr vs. Transbase

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websiteobjectbox.iordf4j.orgwww.singlestore.comsolr.apache.orgwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.iordf4j.org/­documentationdocs.singlestore.comsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.SingleStore Inc.Apache Software FoundationTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20172004201320061987
Current release8.5, January 20249.6.0, April 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaC++, GoJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux info64 bit version requiredAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF Schemasyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
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
Java
PHP
Python
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesJava pluginsyes
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infohash partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesonline/offline synchronization between client and servernoneSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsspark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDoptimistic lockingyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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ObjectBoxRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLSolrTransbase
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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