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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL vs. ArangoDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. searchxml

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NameAlibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDB  Xexclude from comparisonArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionAn online MPP (Massively Parallel Processing) data warehousing service based on GreenplumNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Document store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.76
Rank#220  Overall
#102  Relational DBMS
Score3.26
Rank#88  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hybriddb-postgresqlarangodb.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­analyticdb-for-postgresql/­latest/­product-introduction-overviewdocs.arangodb.comapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
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DeveloperAlibaba / Pivotal Software Inc. / PostgreSQL Global Development GroupArangoDB Inc.FoundationDBOracleinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20162012201320112015
Current release3.11.5, November 20236.2.28, November 202024.1, May 20241.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionschema-free infosome layers support schemasSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashno infosome layers support typingoptionalyes
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.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnosupported in specific SQL layer onlySQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Perl
Python
R
C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJavaScriptin SQL-layer onlynoyes infoon the application server
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infosince version 2.0ShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with configurable replication factoryesElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoconfigurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)
Linearizable consistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes inforelationships in graphsin SQL-layer onlynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)multiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infooff heap cacheno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesnoAccess rights for users and rolesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
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Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for PostgreSQL infoformer name was HybridDBArangoDBFoundationDBOracle NoSQLsearchxml
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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