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DBMS > etcd vs. ObjectBox vs. STSdb vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. ObjectBox vs. STSdb vs. TimescaleDB

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Nameetcd  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed reliable key-value storeExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelKey-value storeObject oriented DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websiteetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
objectbox.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.timescale.com
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
docs.objectbox.iodocs.timescale.com
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedSTS Soft SCTimescale
Initial release201720112017
Current release3.4, August 20194.0.8, September 20152.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageGoC and C++C#C
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
Proprietary native API.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C#
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyes, watching key changesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.online/offline synchronization between client and servernoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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