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System Properties Comparison gStore vs. ObjectBox vs. SpatiaLite vs. Trafodion

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

Spatial extension of SQLite

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.03
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

en.gstore.cn

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.objectbox.io

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Alessandro Furieri

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2016

2017

2008

2014

Current release

1.2, November 2023

4.0 (May 2024)

5.0.0, August 2020

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like 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

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

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

yes

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

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

News

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17 September 2024

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11 September 2024

First on-device Vector Database (aka Semantic Index) for iOS
24 July 2024

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with vector databases: Expanding AI Capabilities
18 June 2024

The on-device Vector Database for Android and Java
29 May 2024

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