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Name

Description

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

objectbox.io

sql.js.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Yandex

Initial release

2017

2012

1998

2019

Current release

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

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++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

except by serializing a db to a file

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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