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System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. EsgynDB vs. GreptimeDB vs. H2 vs. RDF4J

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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.

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

An open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiency

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	3.30
Rank	#82	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#10	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	0.15
Rank	#325	Overall
	#144	Relational DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#343	Overall
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.57
Rank	#47	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.72
Rank	#222	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

Technical documentation

docs.arangodb.com

docs.greptime.com

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

rdf4j.org/documentation

Social network pages

Developer

ArangoDB Inc.

Esgyn

Greptime Inc.

Thomas Mueller

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2012

2015

2022

2005

2004

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java

Rust

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Android
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

RDF Schemas

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

yes

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
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP API
JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript

Java

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Java Stored Procedures

Python

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

yes

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

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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

Simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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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GreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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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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- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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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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For IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Key customers

Cisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Greptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Market metrics

ArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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GreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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Licensing and pricing models

Very permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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GreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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