DBMS > ArangoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigchainDB vs. ClickHouse vs. Dgraph

System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. BigchainDB vs. ClickHouse vs. Dgraph

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Name

This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.32
Rank	#90	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.45
Rank	#156	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Website

arangodb.com

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.bigchaindb.com

clickhouse.com

dgraph.io

Technical documentation

docs.arangodb.com

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

clickhouse.com/docs

dgraph.io/docs

Social network pages

Developer

ArangoDB Inc.

Atos Convergence Creators

Clickhouse Inc.

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2016

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

1703

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

commercial

Open Source

AGPL v3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Python

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

optional

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

APIs and other access methods

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

LDAP

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

All languages with LDAP bindings

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

key based and custom

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

yes

selectable replication factor

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

Synchronous replication via Raft

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

yes

LDAP bind authentication

yes

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

Planned for future releases

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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