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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. SAP IQ vs. SQream DB vs. ToroDB vs. Trafodion

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Name

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

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

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

column-oriented

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

objectbox.io

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

sqream.com

github.com/torodb/server

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

docs.sqream.com

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

SAP, formerly Sybase

SQream Technologies

8Kdata

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2017

1994

2017

2016

2014

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

2022.1.6, December 2022

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Java

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.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++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions in Python

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

Source-replica replication

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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