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System Properties Comparison gStore vs. ObjectBox vs. TimesTen vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

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

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.03
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

en.gstore.cn

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

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

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

Technical documentation

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

docs.objectbox.io

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Oracle

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

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2016

2017

1998

2019

Current release

1.2, November 2023

4.0 (May 2024)

Release 22.1

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Linux

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

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

Data scheme

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Proprietary native API

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

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

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL

Triggers

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes, each node contains all data

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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