DBMS > ObjectBox vs. Speedb vs. SQLite vs. Trafodion vs. Typesense

System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. Speedb vs. SQLite vs. Trafodion vs. Typesense

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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

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

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

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

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#219	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Website

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

typesense.org/docs

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Speedb

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2017

2020

2000

2014

2015

Current release

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C++, Java

C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

none

yes, via HBase

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

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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