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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. Riak KV vs. Snowflake vs. SQream DB vs. Trafodion

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSnowflake  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeCloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured dataa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score121.33
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#227  Overall
#104  Relational DBMS
Websiteobjectbox.iowww.snowflake.comsqream.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.iowww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.snowflake.net/­manuals/­index.htmldocs.sqream.comtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSnowflake Computing Inc.SQream TechnologiesApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20172009201420172014
Current release3.2.0, December 20222022.1.6, December 20222.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC and C++ErlangC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC++, Java
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
hostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes infosupport of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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 indexesyesrestrictednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoErlanguser defined functionsuser defined functions in PythonJava Stored Procedures
Triggersnoyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno infosimilar concept for controling cloud resourcesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"yeshorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesonline/offline synchronization between client and serverselectable replication factoryesnoneyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between data sets can be storedyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes, using Riak SecurityUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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