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DBMS > ArangoDB vs. BigObject vs. TimescaleDB vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. BigObject vs. TimescaleDB vs. Trino

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NameArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonTrino  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative 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 queriesA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLFast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Relational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store
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Score3.32
Rank#90  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score5.00
Rank#66  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Websitearangodb.combigobject.iowww.timescale.comtrino.io
Technical documentationdocs.arangodb.comdocs.bigobject.iodocs.timescale.comtrino.io/­broadcast
trino.io/­docs/­current
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTubeInstagramLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHub
DeveloperArangoDB Inc.BigObject, Inc.TimescaleTrino Software Foundation
Initial release2012201520172012 info2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL
Current release3.11.5, November 20232.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availablecommercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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ArangoDB Cloud –The Managed Cloud Service of ArangoDB. Provides fully managed, and monitored cluster deployments of any size, with enterprise-grade security. Get started for free and continue for as little as $0,21/hour.Starburst Galaxy offers a feature-rich user interface to connect all your data sources, manage your Trino clusters, and query your data.
Implementation languageC++CJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS infofor devlopment
Data schemeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesdepending on connected data-source
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxyes
APIs and other access methodsAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptLuauser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellyes, depending on connected data-source
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infosince version 2.0noneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesdepending on connected data-source
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with configurable replication factornoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infodepending on connected data-source
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)
noneImmediate Consistencydepending on connected data-source
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationships in graphsyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDdepending on connected data-source
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesdepending on connected data-source
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSQL standard access control
More information provided by the system vendor
ArangoDBBigObjectTimescaleDBTrino
Specific characteristicsGraph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Trino is the fastest open source, massively parallel processing SQL query engine...
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Competitive advantagesConsolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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High performance analtyics and data processing of very large data sets Powerful ANSI...
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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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Performant analytics query engine for data warehouses, data lakes, and data lakehouses...
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Key customersCisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Trino is widely adopted across the globe as freely-available open source software....
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Market metricsArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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33000+ commits in GitHub 8200+ stargazers in GitHub 1200+ pull requests merged in...
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Licensing and pricing modelsVery permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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Trino is an open source project and usage is therefore free. Commercial offerings...
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