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System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. CockroachDB vs. FoundationDB vs. LeanXcale vs. Memcached

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NameArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Relational DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.26
Rank#88  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score1.06
Rank#185  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#85  Relational DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Websitearangodb.comwww.cockroachlabs.comgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.leanxcale.comwww.memcached.org
Technical documentationdocs.arangodb.comwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsapple.github.io/­foundationdbgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebookInstagram
DeveloperArangoDB Inc.Cockroach LabsFoundationDBLeanXcaleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal
Initial release20122015201320152003
Current release3.11.5, November 202324.1.0, May 20246.2.28, November 20201.6.27, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSD license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++GoC++C
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectiondynamic schemaschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashyesno infosome layers support typingno
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.no
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyyes infothrough Apache Derbyno
APIs and other access methodsAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
JDBCJDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptnoin SQL-layer onlyno
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infosince version 2.0horizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with configurable replication factorMulti-source replication using RAFTyesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
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)
Immediate ConsistencyLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationships in graphsyesin SQL-layer onlyyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesno
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesRole-based access controlnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol
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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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