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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. TimesTen vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. XTDB vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	1.32
Rank	#162	Overall
	#14	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

objectbox.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

victoriametrics.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

VictoriaMetrics

Juxt Ltd.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2017

1998

2018

2019

2009

Current release

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

v1.91, May 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

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++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

HTTP REST
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication

yes, each node contains all data

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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