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System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. DolphinDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Linter vs. OushuDB

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Name

Description

Native multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.

DolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

RDBMS for high security requirements

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.26
Rank	#88	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	4.03
Rank	#78	Overall
	#6	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	0.12
Rank	#350	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#355	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Website

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

Technical documentation

docs.arangodb.com

docs.dolphindb.cn/en/help200/index.html

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.oushu.com/documentation

Social network pages

Developer

ArangoDB Inc.

DolphinDB, Inc

Microsoft

relex.ru

Oushu

Initial release

2012

2018

2010

1990

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

v2.00.4, January 2022

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

commercial

free community version available

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

.NET and C

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

.NET

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream

JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

C
C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

horizontal partitioning

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

configurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Administrators, Users, Groups

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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Specific characteristics

Graph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Competitive advantages

Consolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Typical application scenarios

Native multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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Key customers

Cisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metrics

ArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing models

Very permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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