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System Properties Comparison Realm vs. YottaDB

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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

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Document store

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	7.60
Rank	#52	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

realm.io

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

realm.io/docs

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2014

2001

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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