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Name

Description

Open-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality data

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

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Key-value store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.67
Rank	#107	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS
	#7	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.29
Rank	#69	Overall
	#11	Document stores
	#4	Graph DBMS
	#11	Key-value stores
	#8	Search engines

Score	5.33
Rank	#68	Overall
	#10	Document stores
	#3	Graph DBMS
	#10	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#306	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

druid.apache.org/docs/latest/design

www.arangodb.com/docs/stable

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

ArangoDB Inc.

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2012

2010

2018

Current release

0.20.0, October 2020

3.7.2.1, September 2020

3.1.0, June 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache license v2

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Unix

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Data scheme

yes

schema-less columns are supported

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL for querying

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

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

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Java, Javascript

Triggers

Hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

manual/auto, time-based

Sharding

since version 2.0

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage engines

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

could be achieved with distributed queries

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

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

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

RBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and system

yes

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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Specific characteristics

One Engine. One Query Language. Multiple Data Models. ArangoDB is an open source...
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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 9000 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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News

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10 December 2020

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17 November 2020

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5 November 2020

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24 October 2020

ArangoML Part 2: Basic Arangopipe Workflow
9 October 2020

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