DBMS > LMDB vs. Realm vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp KunDB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison LMDB vs. Realm vs. STSdb vs. Transwarp KunDB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

A high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database library

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

OLTP DBMS based on a distributed architecture and highly compatible with MySQL and Oracle

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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Score	1.99
Rank	#125	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.10
Rank	#344	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.symas.com/symas-embedded-database-lmdb

realm.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/kundb

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

www.lmdb.tech/doc

realm.io/docs

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Symas

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

STS Soft SC

Transwarp

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2011

2014

2011

2012

Current release

0.9.32, January 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C#
Java

JavaScript

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

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

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