DBMS > Realm vs. Riak KV vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Realm vs. Riak KV vs. Transbase

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

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

Score	9.89
Rank	#49	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	6.63
Rank	#64	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#325	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Website

realm.io

riak.com/products/riak-kv

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

realm.io/docs

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Basho Technologies

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2014

2009

1987

Current release

2.1.0, April 2015

Transbase 8.4, September 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Erlang

C and C++

Server operating systems

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
OS X

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

JavaScript and Erlang

yes

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Now a part of MongoDB Data Platform , Realm Database is the fast, easy to use, and...
» more

Competitive advantages

Realm ensures offline-first functionality, meaning apps run smoothly and deliver...
» more

Typical application scenarios

Mobile Consumer Apps First-Line Worker Apps
» more

Key customers

Cathay Pacific Royal Carribbean Cruise Lines Open Source Database powers apps built...
» more

Market metrics

Used by 100,000+ developers 2 bn installs Currently used in 40k+ applications in...
» more

Licensing and pricing models

Realm database is licensed under the Apache License v2.0.
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis are the winners of the March ranking
2 March 2016, Paul Andlinger

show all

Recent citations in the news

On Point: Q&A with Lewis Shepherd | SIGNAL Magazine
1 June 2021, Signal Magazine

provided by Google News

Is Riak A Good NoSQL Database Option?
1 July 2019, Analytics India Magazine

Riak NoSQL Database: Use Cases and Best Practices
23 December 2011, InfoQ.com

Basho, Maker of Riak NoSQL Database, Raises $25M
13 January 2015, Data Center Knowledge

Riak TS for time series analysis at scale
29 September 2016, Opensource.com

Basho’s database downfall highlights danger of bringing too-niche tech to market
10 July 2018, TechRepublic

provided by Google News

Job opportunities

Android Software Engineer
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD

iOS Tooling Engineer
Lyft, San Francisco, CA

Cloud Support Engineer I - Databases, Premium Support
Amazon Web Services, Inc., Remote

Software Engineer
IQVIA, Remote

Software Developer
MOZ Group, Remote

Software Engineer
IQVIA, Somerset, NJ

DevOps Engineer
HealthVerity, Remote

jobs by

Share this page