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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Realm vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

Description

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

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

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.42
Rank	#241	Overall
	#16	Time Series DBMS

Score	9.38
Rank	#43	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	3.52
Rank	#88	Overall
	#45	Relational DBMS

Website

spotify.github.io/heroic/#!/index

realm.io

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic/#!/docs/overview

realm.io/docs

Developer

Spotify

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

2014

1993

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Delphi
Perl
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

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

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate 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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-Memory realm

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Now a part of MongoDB Data Platform , Realm Database is the fast, easy to use, and...
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Competitive advantages

Realm ensures offline-first functionality, meaning apps run smoothly and deliver...
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Typical application scenarios

Mobile Consumer Apps First-Line Worker Apps
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Key customers

Cathay Pacific Royal Carribbean Cruise Lines Open Source Database powers apps built...
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Market metrics

Used by 100,000+ developers 2 bn installs Currently used in 40k+ applications in...
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Licensing and pricing models

Realm database is licensed under the Apache License v2.0.
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