DBMS > Altibase vs. Realm vs. searchxml vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Realm vs. searchxml vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

An enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMS

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.87
Rank	#200	Overall
	#93	Relational DBMS

Score	7.18
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

altibase.com

realm.io

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

github.com/ALTIBASE/Documents/tree/master/Manuals

realm.io/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Altibase

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

informationpartners gmbh

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1999

2014

2015

2000

Current release

v7.3, 2023, August 2023

1.0

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open source edition discontinued with March 2023

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI SQL-92

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

stored procedures and stored functions

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

none

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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