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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. SpatiaLite vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

TypeDB provides developers with an expressive, customizable type system to manage their data using an award-winning query language, TypeQL, while building on a high-performance, distributed architecture.

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the graph database model.
Object oriented DBMS

The data model of TypeDB comprises object-oriented features such as class inheritance and interfaces.
Relational DBMS

The type-theoretic data model of TypeDB subsumes the relational database model.

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.12
Rank	#173	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#144	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#236	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#9	Object oriented DBMS
	#109	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

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

typedb.com

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

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

typedb.com/docs

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Alessandro Furieri

Vaticle

Initial release

2017

2008

2016

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

5.0.0, August 2020

2.28.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

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

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

Proprietary native API

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (IDE)

Supported programming languages

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

All JVM based languages
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

none

Synchronous replication via raft

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

substituted by the relationship feature

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 capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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News

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

Vector search: making sense of search queries
29 May 2024

Python on-device Vector and Object Database for Local AI
28 May 2024

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