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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. Realm vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SQLite vs. YottaDB

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
realm.iowww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.sqlite.orgyottadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.iorealm.io/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywherewww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmlyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019SAP infoformerly SybaseDwayne Richard HippYottaDB, LLC
Initial release20172014199220002001
Current release4.0 (May 2024)17, July 20153.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CC
Server operating systemsAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-lessDocker
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes infodynamic column typesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyesyesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.no
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
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
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersnoyes infoChange Listenersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlinenoneSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infovia file-system locks
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 infoIn-Memory realmyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms
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