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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. SQLite vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsWidely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.11
Rank#175  Overall
#7  Object oriented DBMS
#13  Vector DBMS
Score117.77
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#21  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.sqlite.orgwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.iowww.sqlite.org/­docs.html
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedDwayne Richard Hipp
Initial release201720002023
Current release4.0 (May 2024)3.46.1  (13 August 2024), August 20241.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoPublic Domaincommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++CC++
Server operating systemsAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
server-lessLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyes infodynamic column types
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.Vector, Numeric and String
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
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
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlinenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infovia file-system locksyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoRole based access control and fine grained access rights
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