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Name

Description

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

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#7	Vector DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#238	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.risingwave.com/database

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

RisingWave Labs

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2022

1998

2019

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

1.2, September 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Rust

Clojure

Server operating systems

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

Standard SQL-types and JSON

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

UDFs in Python or Java

PL/SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

Users and Roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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