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System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. BigObject vs. InfluxDB vs. Memcached vs. MongoDB

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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.

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

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Trend Chart

Score	3.30
Rank	#82	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#10	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	22.12
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.84
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	410.24
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Website

arangodb.com

bigobject.io

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.memcached.org

www.mongodb.com

Technical documentation

docs.arangodb.com

docs.bigobject.io

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

Social network pages

Developer

ArangoDB Inc.

BigObject, Inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

MongoDB, Inc

Initial release

2012

2015

2013

2003

2009

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

1.6.29, June 2024

7.0.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

yes

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

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 DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

APIs and other access methods

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

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Proprietary protocol

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Lua

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

none

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

none

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
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)

none

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

User concepts

Access control

yes

simple rights management via user accounts

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Access rights for users and roles

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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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MongoDB provides an integrated suite of cloud database and data services to accelerate...
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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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Time to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Built around the flexible document data model and unified API, MongoDB is a developer...
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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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IoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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AI-enriched intelligent apps (Continental, Telefonica, Iron Mountain) Internet of...
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Key customers

Cisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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InfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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ADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,...
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Market metrics

ArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Fastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Hundreds of millions downloads, over 150,000+ Atlas clusters provisioned every month...
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Licensing and pricing models

Very permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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Open source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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MongoDB database server: Server-Side Public License (SSPL) . Commercial licenses...
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