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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. RDFox vs. SingleStore vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

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 type

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.22
Rank	#305	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#15	RDF stores

Score	4.02
Rank	#74	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.singlestore.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

docs.singlestore.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Oxford Semantic Technologies

SingleStore Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2017

2013

2000

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

6.0, Septermber 2022

8.5, January 2024

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

server-less

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

C
Java

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

hash partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

replication via a shared file system

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Roles, resources, and access types

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

More information provided by the system vendor

News

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17 September 2024

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11 September 2024

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24 July 2024

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18 June 2024

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

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