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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. RocksDB vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.54
Rank	#169	Overall
	#7	Object oriented DBMS

Score	4.57
Rank	#87	Overall
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#343	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Website

objectbox.io

rocksdb.org

github.com/Terark/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

github.com/Terark/terarkdb/wiki

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Facebook, Inc.

Terark

Initial release

2017

2013

2016

Current release

7.10.2, March 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

More information provided by the system vendor

News

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