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System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. DuckDB vs. GraphDB vs. GridDB vs. LevelDB

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NameArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonLevelDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSEnterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
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Score3.26
Rank#88  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#91  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score2.25
Rank#115  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Websitearangodb.comduckdb.orgwww.ontotext.comgriddb.netgithub.com/­google/­leveldb
Technical documentationdocs.arangodb.comduckdb.org/­docsgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationdocs.griddb.netgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.md
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebookInstagramLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperArangoDB Inc.OntotextToshiba CorporationGoogle
Initial release20122018200020132011
Current release3.11.5, November 20231.0.0, June 202410.4, October 20235.1, August 20221.23, February 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C++JavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-lessAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampno
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 indexesyesyesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesstored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)no
APIs and other access methodsAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptnowell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilitynono
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infosince version 2.0nonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with configurable replication factornoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptnonoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsno
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 Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)Immediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationships in graphsnoyes infoConstraint checkingnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID at container levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infowith automatic compression on writes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoDefault Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.Access rights for users can be defined per databaseno
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ArangoDBDuckDBGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMGridDBLevelDB
Specific characteristicsGraph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Ontotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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GridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Competitive advantagesConsolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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GraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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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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Metadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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Factory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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Key customersCisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Denso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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Market metricsArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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GraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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GitHub trending repository
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Licensing and pricing modelsVery permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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GraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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Open Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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