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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. SiteWhere vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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Name

Description

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

objectbox.io

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

terminusdb.com

velocitydb.com

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

SiteWhere

DataChemist Ltd.

VelocityDB Inc

Initial release

2017

2010

2018

2011

Current release

11.0.0, January 2023

7.x

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

.Net

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

JavaScript
Python

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Journaling Streams

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Role-based access control

Based on Windows Authentication

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