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DBMS > ArangoDB vs. Datomic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SpaceTime vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. Datomic vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SpaceTime vs. Transbase

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NameArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilitySearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Relational DBMSSearch engineSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.30
Rank#82  Overall
#14  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#10  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score1.55
Rank#144  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score5.75
Rank#58  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#355  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitearangodb.comwww.datomic.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.arangodb.comdocs.datomic.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTubeInstagram
DeveloperArangoDB Inc.CognitectMicrosoftMireoTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20122012201520201987
Current release3.11.5, November 20231.0.7180, July 2024V1Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availablecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Java, ClojureC++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionyesyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes
APIs and other access methodsAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
Clojure
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
C++
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptyes infoTransaction Functionsnonoyes
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infosince version 2.0none infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with configurable replication factornone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Source-replica replication
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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationships in graphsnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoyes infousing Azure authenticationyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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ArangoDBDatomicMicrosoft Azure AI SearchSpaceTimeTransbase
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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