DBMS > ArangoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Brytlyt vs. Cassandra vs. InterSystems IRIS

System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Brytlyt vs. Cassandra vs. InterSystems IRIS

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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

Scalable GPU-accelerated RDBMS for very fast analytic and streaming workloads, leveraging PostgreSQL

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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

Score	0.29
Rank	#288	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Website

arangodb.com

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

brytlyt.io

cassandra.apache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

Technical documentation

docs.arangodb.com

docs.brytlyt.io

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

Social network pages

Developer

ArangoDB Inc.

Atos Convergence Creators

Brytlyt

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

InterSystems

Initial release

2012

2016

2008

2018

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

1703

5.0, August 2023

4.1.3, July 2023

2023.3, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C, C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

LDAP

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

All languages with LDAP bindings

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
Python
Tcl

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

user defined functions

in PL/pgSQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

yes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

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

yes

LDAP bind authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes

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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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InterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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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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No single point of failure ensures 100% availability . Operational simplicity for...
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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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Internet of Things (IOT), fraud detection applications, recommendation engines, product...
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Key customers

Cisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Apple, Netflix, Uber, ING,, Intuit,Fidelity, NY Times, Outbrain, BazaarVoice, Best...
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Market metrics

ArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Cassandra is used by 40% of the Fortune 100.
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Licensing and pricing models

Very permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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Apache licenseÂ Pricing for commercial distributions provided by DataStax and available...
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