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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. ArangoDB vs. Geode vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. ArangoDB vs. Geode vs. IBM Db2 Event Store

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use cases
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Key-value storeEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score3.32
Rank#90  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.19
Rank#323  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Websitealasql.orgarangodb.comgeode.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-store
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.arangodb.comgeode.apache.org/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-store
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTubeInstagram
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffArangoDB Inc.Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.IBM
Initial release2014201220022017
Current release3.11.5, November 20231.1, February 20172.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer addition
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noSQL-like query language (OQL)yes infothrough the embedded Spark runtime
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJavaScriptuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesnoyes infoCache Event Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infosince version 2.0ShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication with configurable replication factorMulti-source replicationActive-active shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoconfigurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes inforelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDyes, on a single nodeno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesNo - written data is immutable
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storage
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Specific characteristicsGraph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Competitive advantagesConsolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Typical application scenariosNative multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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Key customersCisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metricsArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing modelsVery permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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