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DBMS > KeyDB vs. Realm vs. STSdb vs. SurrealDB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison KeyDB vs. Realm vs. STSdb vs. SurrealDB vs. Yanza

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NameKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
realm.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4surrealdb.comyanza.com
Technical documentationdocs.keydb.devrealm.io/­docssurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019STS Soft SCSurrealDB LtdYanza
Initial release20192014201120222015
Current release4.0.8, September 2015v1.1.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD-3Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Sourcecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C#Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
WindowsLinux
macOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datepartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yesno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization Protoco.NET Client APIGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C#
Java
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuano inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessarynono
Triggersnoyes infoChange Listenersnoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoIn-Memory realm
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple password-based access control and ACLyesnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesno

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