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System Properties Comparison Realm vs. Sequoiadb vs. Snowflake 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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

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	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

realm.io

www.sequoiadb.com

www.snowflake.com

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

Technical documentation

realm.io/docs

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

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2014

2013

2014

2019

Current release

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux

hosted

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

proprietary protocol using JSON

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

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

Immediate Consistency

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

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

simple password-based access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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