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System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. Blueflood vs. Citus vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Microsoft Access

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NameArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLCloud-based data warehousing serviceMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score3.26
Rank#88  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.37
Rank#160  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Websitearangodb.comblueflood.iowww.citusdata.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousewww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­access
Technical documentationdocs.arangodb.comgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.citusdata.comdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­access
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebookInstagram
DeveloperArangoDB Inc.RackspaceIBMMicrosoft
Initial release20122013201020141992
Current release3.11.5, November 20238.1, December 20181902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercial infoBundled with Microsoft Office
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageC++JavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
LinuxhostedWindows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLs
Data schemeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionpredefined schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityno infoImport/export of XML data possible
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standard
APIs and other access methodsAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
HTTP RESTADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.PL/SQL, SQL PLyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Triggersnonoyesyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engine
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infosince version 2.0Sharding infobased on CassandraShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with configurable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyesnone
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)
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationships in graphsnoyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID infobut no files for transaction logging
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infobut no files for transaction logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003
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ArangoDBBluefloodCitusIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBMicrosoft Access
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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