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DBMS > ArangoDB vs. Blueflood vs. CouchDB vs. SQL.JS vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. Blueflood vs. CouchDB vs. SQL.JS vs. ToroDB

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NameArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
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 CassandraA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.Port of SQLite to JavaScriptA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extension
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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
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitearangodb.comblueflood.iocouchdb.apache.orgsql.js.orggithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocs.arangodb.comgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikidocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stablesql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebookInstagram
DeveloperArangoDB Inc.RackspaceApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others8Kdata
Initial release20122013200520122016
Current release3.11.5, November 20233.3.3, December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaErlangJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionpredefined schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashyesnoyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
HTTP RESTRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptnoView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infosince version 2.0Sharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with configurable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptnoyesno
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
Eventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationships in graphsnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoAccess rights for users and roles
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ArangoDBBluefloodCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"SQL.JSToroDB
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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