DBMS > ArangoDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. EDB Postgres vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Weaviate

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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.

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.32
Rank	#90	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	1.90
Rank	#135	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	29.04
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

arangodb.com

www.enterprisedb.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.arangodb.com

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Social network pages

Developer

ArangoDB Inc.

EnterpriseDB

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Microsoft

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2012

2005

2010

2014

2019

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

14, December 2021

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

yes

JSON types

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

Multi-source replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

yes

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

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

Eventual Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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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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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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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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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

Cisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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All companies that have data.
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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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