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System Properties Comparison RavenDB vs. Realm vs. SWC-DB

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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

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	4.26
Rank	#94	Overall
	#16	Document stores

Score	8.33
Rank	#54	Overall
	#10	Document stores

Score	0.01
Rank	#401	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

ravendb.net

realm.io

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

Technical documentation

ravendb.net/docs

realm.io/docs

Developer

Hibernating Rhinos

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2010

2014

2020

Current release

5.4, July 2022

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL-like query language (RQL)

SQL-like query language

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

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

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++

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

Sharding

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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