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System Properties Comparison AllegroGraph vs. ArangoDB vs. MariaDB

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Name

Description

High performance, persistent RDF store with additional support for Graph DBMS

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

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Primary database model

Document store

with version 6.5
Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.17
Rank	#200	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#17	Graph DBMS
	#7	RDF stores

Score	5.04
Rank	#84	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#4	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	96.84
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Website

allegrograph.com

www.arangodb.com

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

Technical documentation

franz.com/agraph/support/documentation/current/agraph-introduction.html

www.arangodb.com/docs/stable

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

Social network pages

Developer

Franz Inc.

ArangoDB Inc.

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Initial release

2004

2012

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

Current release

7.2.0, October 2021

3.9.3, September 2022

10.10.3, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Data scheme

yes

RDF schemas

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

yes

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.

bulk load of XML files possible

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL is used as query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

C#
Clojure
Java
Lisp
Perl
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript or Common Lisp

JavaScript

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

with Federation

Sharding

since version 2.0

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

Knowledge Graph Platform Leader FedShard - Designed for Entity-Event Knowledge Graph...
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Graph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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MariaDB is the most powerful open source relational database – modern SQL and JSON...
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Competitive advantages

AllegroGraph is uniquely suited to support adhoc queries through SPARQL, Prolog and...
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Consolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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MariaDB has many features unavailable in other open source relational databases....
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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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Web, SaaS and Cloud operational/transactional applications that require high availability,...
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Key customers

Cisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Deutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens Featured...
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Market metrics

ArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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MariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
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Licensing and pricing models

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

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