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System Properties Comparison Realm vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQLite vs. YTsaurus

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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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Document store

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

realm.io

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

www.sqlite.org

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

realm.io/docs

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

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Alessandro Furieri

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Yandex

Initial release

2014

2008

2000

2023

Current release

5.0.0, August 2020

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

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

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

server-less

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

yes

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