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System Properties Comparison RavenDB vs. Realm vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

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

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

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Spatial DBMS
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Score	4.21
Rank	#95	Overall
	#17	Document stores

Score	8.24
Rank	#54	Overall
	#10	Document stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#317	Overall
	#46	Key-value stores

Website

ravendb.net

realm.io

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

ravendb.net/docs

realm.io/docs

Developer

Hibernating Rhinos

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2010

2014

2011

Current release

5.4, July 2022

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (RQL)

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

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Default 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 Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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

Authorization levels configured per client per database

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

RavenDB is the pioneer NoSQL Document Database that is fully transactional (ACID)...
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Competitive advantages

RavenDB is easy to setup and secure. You can do it in a matter of minutes . Easy...
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Typical application scenarios

IoT for Edge Deployments Fraud Detection Recommendation Engines Product Catalogs...
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Key customers

Toyota, Capgemini, Vodafone, Medicaid, Asos, Nomura, RMS Automotive, MSNBC, Pluralsight,...
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Market metrics

2 million+ downloads 1000+ customers including Fortune 500 large enterprises
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Licensing and pricing models

RavenDB is available on-premise and in the cloud. RavenDB Cloud is available on AWS...
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