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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. ArangoDB vs. Citus vs. RDF4J vs. Valentina Server

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Object-relational database and reports server
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Relational DBMSRDF storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score3.26
Rank#88  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storearangodb.comwww.citusdata.comrdf4j.orgwww.valentina-db.net
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.arangodb.comdocs.citusdata.comrdf4j.org/­documentationvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.php
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebookInstagram
DeveloperAlibabaArangoDB Inc.Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Paradigma Software
Initial release20162012201020041999
Current release3.11.5, November 20238.1, December 20185.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++CJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionyesyes infoRDF Schemasyes
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJavaScriptuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesyes
Triggersnonoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infosince version 2.0Shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with configurable replication factorSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono 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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationships in graphsyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDACID infoIsolation support depends on the API used
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreArangoDBCitusRDF4J infoformerly known as SesameValentina Server
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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