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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. RocksDB vs. SwayDB

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Key-value storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.06
Rank#176  Overall
#7  Object oriented DBMS
#12  Vector DBMS
Score3.06
Rank#82  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#380  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
rocksdb.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.iogithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedFacebook, Inc.Simer Plaha
Initial release201720132018
Current release4.0 (May 2024)9.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoBSDOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++Scala
Server operating systemsAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, plus "flex" map-like typesnono
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnono
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