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DBMS > ArangoDB vs. Bangdb vs. H2GIS vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. Bangdb vs. H2GIS vs. PostGIS

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NameArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphSpatial extension of H2Spatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Spatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score3.32
Rank#90  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitearangodb.combangdb.comwww.h2gis.orgpostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.arangodb.comdocs.bangdb.comwww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homepostgis.net/­documentation
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebookInstagram
DeveloperArangoDB Inc.Sachin Sinha, BangDBCNRS
Initial release2012201220132005
Current release3.11.5, November 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++JavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL like support with command line toolyesyes
APIs and other access methodsAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptnoyes infobased on H2user defined functions
Triggersnoyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)yesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infosince version 2.0Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with configurable replication factorselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yes infobased on H2yes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoconfigurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)
Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationships in graphsnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, optimistic concurrency controlyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modeyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes (enterprise version only)yes infobased on H2yes infobased on PostgreSQL
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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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