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System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. BaseX vs. Citus vs. ObjectBox vs. searchxml

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NameArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Native XML DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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Score3.26
Rank#88  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitearangodb.combasex.orgwww.citusdata.comobjectbox.iowww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationdocs.arangodb.comdocs.basex.orgdocs.citusdata.comdocs.objectbox.iowww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebookInstagram
DeveloperArangoDB Inc.BaseX GmbHObjectBox Limitedinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release20122007201020172015
Current release3.11.5, November 202310.7, August 20238.1, December 20181.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaCC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes
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.yes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Proprietary native APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptyesuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyes infoon the application server
Triggersnoyes infovia eventsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infosince version 2.0noneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with configurable replication factornoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptnononono
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)
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationships in graphsnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDmultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDmultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services
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ArangoDBBaseXCitusObjectBoxsearchxml
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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