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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. SpatiaLite

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.09
Rank#173  Overall
#7  Object oriented DBMS
#13  Vector DBMS
Score1.50
Rank#141  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.iowww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedAlessandro Furieri
Initial release20172008
Current release4.0 (May 2024)5.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
server-less
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone
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 methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesno
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