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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. SpatiaLite vs. VoltDB

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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

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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	1.45
Rank	#151	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

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

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

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

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Alessandro Furieri

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2017

2008

2010

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

5.0.0, August 2020

11.3, April 2022

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

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

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++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X

for development

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

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java

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

Multi-source replication
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

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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 and roles with access to stored procedures

More information provided by the system vendor

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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Recent citations in the news

Industrial IoT (IIoT) edge solution for railway operators – a Kapsch ObjectBox Case Study
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