DBMS > Amazon DynamoDB vs. ArangoDB vs. CrateDB vs. HBase vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. ArangoDB vs. CrateDB vs. HBase vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

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

Distributed Database based on Lucene

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	3.77
Rank	#87	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	0.73
Rank	#229	Overall
	#37	Document stores
	#5	Spatial DBMS
	#16	Search engines
	#19	Time Series DBMS
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	31.25
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.25
Rank	#308	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

arangodb.com

cratedb.com

hbase.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.arangodb.com

cratedb.com/docs

hbase.apache.org/book.html

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Social network pages

Developer

Amazon

ArangoDB Inc.

Crate

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2012

2013

2008

2015

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Erlang

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

All Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator support

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

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

schema-free, schema definition possible

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibility

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

.NET
Erlang
Go

community maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

community maintained client
Perl

community maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

community maintained client
Scala

community maintained client

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

user defined functions (Javascript)

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Erlang

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

Configurable replication on table/partition-level

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Eventual Consistency

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

Eventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

unique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategy

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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 for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

yes

rights management via user accounts

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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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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The enterprise database for time series, documents, and vectors. Distributed - Native...
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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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Response time in milliseconds: e ven for complex ad-hoc queries. Massive scaling...
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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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IoT: accelerate your IIoT projects with CrateDB, delivering real-time analytics...
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Key customers

Cisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Across all continents, CrateDB is used by companies of all sizes to meet the most...
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Market metrics

ArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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The CrateDB open source project was started in 2013 Honorable Mention in 2021 Gartner®...
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Licensing and pricing models

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