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System Properties Comparison NuoDB vs. PostGIS vs. Realm vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.99
Rank	#195	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	23.90
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.06
Rank	#365	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores

Website

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

postgis.net

realm.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

doc.nuodb.com

postgis.net/documentation

realm.io/docs

Developer

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2013

2005

2014

2011

Current release

3.4.2, February 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

user defined functions

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

yes

based on PostgreSQL

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

Temporary table

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

based on PostgreSQL

yes

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Recent citations in the news

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18 April 2024, Yahoo Singapore News

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