DBMS > ObjectBox vs. SQLite vs. SQream DB vs. TinkerGraph vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. SQLite vs. SQream DB vs. TinkerGraph vs. Trafodion

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Name

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

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

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#348	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

objectbox.io

www.sqlite.org

sqream.com

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.sqream.com

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Dwayne Richard Hipp

SQream Technologies

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2017

2000

2017

2009

2014

Current release

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

2022.1.6, December 2022

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

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

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

Groovy
Java

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions in Python

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal and vertical partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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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