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System Properties Comparison AnzoGraph DB vs. ArangoDB vs. Fauna vs. MonetDB vs. Tarantool

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NameAnzoGraph DB  Xexclude from comparisonArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonFauna infopreviously named FaunaDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualizationNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.Fauna provides a web-native interface, with support for GraphQL and custom business logic that integrates seamlessly with the rest of the serverless ecosystem. The underlying globally distributed storage and compute platform is fast, consistent, and reliable, with a modern security infrastructure.A relational database management system that stores data in columnsIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Document store
Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
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Score0.23
Rank#307  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score3.32
Rank#90  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#26  Document stores
#14  Graph DBMS
#71  Relational DBMS
#13  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#144  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#66  Relational DBMS
Websitecambridgesemantics.com/­anzographarangodb.comfauna.comwww.monetdb.orgwww.tarantool.io
Technical documentationdocs.cambridgesemantics.com/­anzograph/­userdoc/­home.htmdocs.arangodb.comdocs.fauna.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.tarantool.io/­en/­doc
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTubeInstagram
DeveloperCambridge SemanticsArangoDB Inc.Fauna, Inc.MonetDB BVVK
Initial release20182012201420042008
Current release2.3, January 20213.11.5, November 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 20232.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availablecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++ScalaCC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
macOS
Data schemeSchema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionschema-freeyesFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashnoyesstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime
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 indexesnoyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.nonoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsFull-featured ANSI SQL support
APIs and other access methodsApache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Open binary protocol
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
Python
C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Scala
Swift
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesJavaScriptuser defined functionsyes, in SQL, C, RLua, C and SQL stored procedures
Triggersnononoyesyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infosince version 2.0horizontal partitioning infoconsistent hashingSharding via remote tablesSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication in MPP-ClusterSource-replica replication with configurable replication factorMulti-source replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsKerberos/HDFS data loadingno infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in MPP-ClusterEventual Consistency infoconfigurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)
Immediate ConsistencyCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infonot needed in graphsyes inforelationships in graphsyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, cooperative multitasking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, write ahead logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesIdentity management, authentication, and access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
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AnzoGraph DBArangoDBFauna infopreviously named FaunaDBMonetDBTarantool
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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