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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. SQream DB vs. SwayDB vs. Trafodion vs. Valentina Server

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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

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

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Object-relational database and reports server

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	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

docs.sqream.com

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

SQream Technologies

Simer Plaha

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2017

2018

2014

1999

Current release

2022.1.6, December 2022

2.3.0, February 2019

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Scala

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Java
Kotlin
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions in Python

Java Stored Procedures

yes

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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