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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. ArangoDB vs. Axibase vs. HugeGraph vs. IBM Db2

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score3.32
Rank#90  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score0.29
Rank#292  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbarangodb.comaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.ibm.com/­products/­db2
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdocs.arangodb.comhugegraph.apache.org/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTubeInstagram
DeveloperArangoDB Inc.Axibase CorporationBaiduIBM
Initial release20192012201320181983 infohost version
Current release3.11.5, November 2023155850.912.1, October 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availablecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Groovy
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJavaScriptyesasynchronous Gremlin script jobsyes
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infosince version 2.0Shardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Version
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasSource-replica replication with configurable replication factorSource-replica replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)no infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptyesvia hugegraph-sparkno
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)
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyes inforelationships in graphsnoyes infoedges in graphyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDnoACIDACID
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.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesUsers, roles and permissionsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Amazon DocumentDBArangoDBAxibaseHugeGraphIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2
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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