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DBMS > RavenDB vs. Realm vs. Riak KV vs. Splice Machine vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison RavenDB vs. Realm vs. Riak KV vs. Splice Machine vs. Transbase

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NameRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websiteravendb.netrealm.iosplicemachine.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationravendb.net/­docsrealm.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsplicemachine.com/­how-it-workswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperHibernating RhinosRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSplice MachineTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20102014200920141987
Current release5.4, July 20223.2.0, December 20223.1, March 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC#ErlangJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesyesrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (RQL)nonoyesyes
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryErlangyes infoJavayes
Triggersyesyes infoChange Listenersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnoneselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infolinks between data sets can be storedyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACIDnoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoIn-Memory realmyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseyesyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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