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System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. EventStoreDB vs. InfinityDB vs. STSdb vs. TiDB

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NameArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonEventStoreDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTiDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodTiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Event StoreKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score3.30
Rank#82  Overall
#14  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#10  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score1.07
Rank#181  Overall
#1  Event Stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#365  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
Score4.09
Rank#72  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Websitearangodb.comwww.eventstore.comboilerbay.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4pingcap.com
Technical documentationdocs.arangodb.comdevelopers.eventstore.comboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.pingcap.com/­tidb/­stable
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookYouTubeInstagram
DeveloperArangoDB Inc.Event Store LimitedBoiler Bay Inc.STS Soft SCPingCAP, Inc.
Initial release20122012200220112016
Current release3.11.5, November 202321.2, February 20214.04.0.8, September 20158.2.0, July 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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ArangoDB Cloud –The Managed Cloud Service of ArangoDB. Provides fully managed, and monitored cluster deployments of any size, with enterprise-grade security. Get started for free and continue for as little as $0,21/hour.TiDB Cloud: Fully-managed TiDB Service. Bring everything great about TiDB to the cloud.
Implementation languageC++JavaC#Go, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMWindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
.NET Client APIGORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
JavaC#
Java
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infosince version 2.0nonenonehorizontal partitioning (by key range)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with configurable replication factornonenoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptnonoyes infowith TiSpark Connector
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 Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationships in graphsno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynoyes infofull support since version 6.6
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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ArangoDBEventStoreDBInfinityDBSTSdbTiDB
Specific characteristicsGraph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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TiDB is an advanced open-source, distributed SQL database for modern application...
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Competitive advantagesConsolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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- HORIZONTAL SCALING : TiDB grants total transparency into your data workloads without...
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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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TiDB is ideal for transactional applications that require extreme scalability and...
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Key customersCisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metricsArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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34K+ GitHub stars 5K+ members in TiDB Community Slack 1K+ community contributors...
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Licensing and pricing modelsVery permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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TiDB Community : Free open source software (Apache 2.0) TiDB Self-Hosted : Enterprise...
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