DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. ArangoDB vs. Databricks vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. ArangoDB vs. Databricks vs. SpatiaLite vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

A fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time access

Native multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.

The Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.

Spatial extension of SQLite

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Wide column store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Document store
Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.26
Rank	#301	Overall
	#12	Wide column stores

Score	3.32
Rank	#90	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	78.61
Rank	#15	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#10	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/table-store

arangodb.com

www.databricks.com

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/tablestore

docs.arangodb.com

docs.databricks.com

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Social network pages

Developer

Alibaba

ArangoDB Inc.

Databricks

Alessandro Furieri

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2016

2012

2013

2008

2000

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

with Databricks SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust

Python
R
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

user defined functions and aggregates

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

since version 2.0

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

configurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomic single-row operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on subaccounts and tokens

yes

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Specific characteristics

Graph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Supported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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Competitive advantages

Consolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Typical application scenarios

Native multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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Key customers

Cisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metrics

ArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing models

Very permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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