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System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. ArcadeDB vs. RethinkDB

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Name

Description

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

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	2.85
Rank	#88	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#4	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores
	#9	Search engines

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#49	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#49	Key-value stores
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.30
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Website

arangodb.com

arcadedb.com

rethinkdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.arangodb.com

docs.arcadedb.com

rethinkdb.com/docs

Developer

ArangoDB Inc.

Arcade Data

The Linux Foundation

since July 2017

Initial release

2012

2021

2009

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

September 2021

2.4.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

yes

string, binary, float, bool, date, geometry

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-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Supported programming languages

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

Java

community-supported driver
C#

community-supported driver
C++

community-supported driver
Clojure

community-supported driver
Dart

community-supported driver
Erlang

community-supported driver
Go

community-supported driver
Haskell

community-supported driver
Java

official driver
JavaScript (Node.js)

official driver
Lisp

community-supported driver
Lua

community-supported driver
Objective-C

community-supported driver
Perl

community-supported driver
PHP

community-supported driver
Python

official driver
Ruby

official driver
Scala

community-supported driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

Client-side triggers through changefeeds

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

Sharding

range based

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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 single-document operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC based

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

users and table-level permissions

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The Weight of Relational Databases: Time for Multi-Model?
29 August 2017, Luca Olivari (guest author)

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Recent citations in the news

ArangoDB raises $10 million for NoSQL database management
14 March 2019, VentureBeat

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3 June 2024, MarkTechPost

ArangoDB Boosts Performance and Usability Across Search, Graph, and Analytics with Release of ArangoDB 3.11
30 May 2023, PRWeb

Graph, machine learning, hype, and beyond: ArangoDB open source multi-model database releases version 3.7
27 August 2020, ZDNET

ArangoDB advances graph database fortunes with new funding
6 October 2021, TechTarget

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7 November 2024, SitePoint

An introduction to building realtime apps with RethinkDB
4 June 2015, devmio

Stripe acquires team behind NoSQL database startup RethinkDB
5 October 2016, VentureBeat

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24 January 2017, TechRepublic

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