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DBMS > BoltDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. mSQL vs. Realm

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. mSQL vs. Realm

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.70
Rank#225  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score1.26
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score7.18
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudanthughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlrealm.io
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantrealm.io/­docs
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Hughes TechnologiesRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release2013201019942014
Current release4.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoErlangC
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGoC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoChange Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoatomic operations within a document possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoyes

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