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System Properties Comparison Realm vs. Sequoiadb vs. SQL.JS vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Document store

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

realm.io

www.sequoiadb.com

sql.js.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

realm.io/docs

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2013

2012

2019

Current release

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

JavaScript

Clojure

Server operating systems

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON

JavaScript API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

none

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Document is locked during a transaction

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

except by serializing a db to a file

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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

yes

simple password-based access control

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