DBMS > ArangoDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Postgres-XL vs. Qdrant vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. Postgres-XL vs. Qdrant vs. Snowflake

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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.

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

A high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matching

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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

Score	0.02
Rank	#368	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	1.16
Rank	#175	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

arangodb.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/qdrant/qdrant
qdrant.tech

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.arangodb.com

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

qdrant.tech/documentation

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Social network pages

Developer

ArangoDB Inc.

FairCom Corporation

Qdrant

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2012

1979

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2021

2014

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

V3, October 2020

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

ANSI C, C++

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
macOS

Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

yes

Numbers, Strings, Geo, Boolean

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Keywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

ANSI SQL queries

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

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
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

gRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OpenAPI 3.0

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Collection-level replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

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
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency, tunable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

when using SQL

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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 user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Key-based authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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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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