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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. searchxml vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.22
Rank	#172	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#386	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	0.01
Rank	#387	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.15
Rank	#337	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

objectbox.io

www.searchxml.net/category/products

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

informationpartners gmbh

Alex Kashirin

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2017

2015

2020

1987

Current release

1.0

0.5, April 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

on the application server

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

multiple readers, single writer

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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