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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. SpatiaLite vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Spatial extension of SQLite

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Trend Chart

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

objectbox.io

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

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

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

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Alessandro Furieri

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2017

2008

2001

Current release

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

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

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
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

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

yes

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

optimistic locking

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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