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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. ArangoDB vs. Dgraph vs. KairosDB vs. SurrealDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMSDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Graph DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
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Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score3.32
Rank#90  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score1.45
Rank#156  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#203  Overall
#34  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputearangodb.comdgraph.iogithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbsurrealdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.arangodb.comdgraph.io/­docskairosdb.github.iosurrealdb.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTubeInstagram
DeveloperAlibabaArangoDB Inc.Dgraph Labs, Inc.SurrealDB Ltd
Initial release20162012201620132022
Current release3.11.5, November 20231.2.2, November 2018v1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++GoJavaRust
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashyesyesyes
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 indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesJavaC#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaJavaScriptnono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infosince version 2.0yesSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with configurable replication factorSynchronous replication via Raftselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptnonono
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)
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesno infoPlanned for future releasessimple password-based access controlyes, based on authentication and database rules
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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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