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DBMS > Realm vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison Realm vs. Riak KV vs. SiteWhere vs. SurrealDB

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NameRealm  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score4.10
Rank#82  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websiterealm.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheresurrealdb.com
Technical documentationrealm.io/­docswww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019OpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesSiteWhereSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release2014200920102022
Current release3.2.0, December 2022v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageErlangJavaRust
Server operating systemsAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freepredefined schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
HTTP RESTGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languages.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
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryErlang
Triggersyes infoChange Listenersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes, using Riak SecurityUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes, based on authentication and database rules

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