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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. SAP HANA vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

objectbox.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

SAP

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2017

2010

2011

Current release

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

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

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

Edge AI: The era of on-device AI
23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

Vector Databases for Edge AI
9 August 2023

Vector Database Release for Flutter / Dart + Python
13 June 2023

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