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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. SurrealDB vs. Trafodion vs. VoltDB

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NameObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
surrealdb.comtrafodion.apache.orgwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.iosurrealdb.com/­docstrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmldocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedSurrealDB LtdApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPVoltDB Inc.
Initial release2017202220142010
Current release4.0 (May 2024)v1.5.0, May 20242.3.0, February 201911.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++RustC++, JavaJava, C++
Server operating systemsAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsProprietary native APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored ProceduresJava
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineyes, via HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and roles with access to stored procedures
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