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System Properties Comparison RavenDB vs. Realm vs. searchxml vs. SpatiaLite 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

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Spatial extension of SQLite

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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

Score	2.68
Rank	#102	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	7.18
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Website

ravendb.net

realm.io

www.searchxml.net/category/products

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

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

Technical documentation

ravendb.net/docs

realm.io/docs

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Hibernating Rhinos

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

informationpartners gmbh

Alessandro Furieri

Alex Kashirin

Initial release

2010

2014

2015

2008

2020

Current release

5.4, July 2022

1.0

5.0.0, August 2020

0.5, April 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

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

Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

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

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

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++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

yes

on the application server

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

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

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

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

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Authorization levels configured per client per database

yes

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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