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System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. FatDB vs. HBase

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NameArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.An embedded key-value store for Go.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Key-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.26
Rank#88  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Websitearangodb.comgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.datomic.comhbase.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.arangodb.comdocs.datomic.comhbase.apache.org/­book.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebookInstagram
DeveloperArangoDB Inc.CognitectFatCloudApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset
Initial release20122013201220122008
Current release3.11.5, November 20231.0.6735, June 20232.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++GoJava, ClojureC#Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMWindowsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Data schemeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashnoyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVRO
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono infoVia inetgration in SQL Serverno
APIs and other access methodsAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
GoClojure
Java
C#C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptnoyes infoTransaction Functionsyes infovia applicationsyes infoCoprocessors in Java
TriggersnonoBy using transaction functionsyes infovia applicationsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infosince version 2.0nonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with configurable replication factornonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptnonoyesyes
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationships in graphsnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDnoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonono infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC
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ArangoDBBoltDBDatomicFatDBHBase
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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