DBMS > ObjectBox vs. SAP IQ vs. Speedb vs. SQLite vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. SAP IQ vs. Speedb vs. SQLite vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#310	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.74
Rank	#224	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS

Website

objectbox.io

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

www.speedb.io

www.sqlite.org

sqream.com

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.sqream.com

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

SAP, formerly Sybase

Speedb

Dwayne Richard Hipp

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2017

1994

2020

2000

2017

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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