DBMS > ArangoDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Access vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SiteWhere

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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.

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

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	0.78
Rank	#213	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	104.92
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Website

arangodb.com

www.geomesa.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

Technical documentation

docs.arangodb.com

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

Social network pages

Developer

ArangoDB Inc.

CCRi and others

Microsoft

SiteWhere

Initial release

2012

2014

1992

2014

2010

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

5.0.0, May 2024

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

commercial

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

yes

schema-free

predefined scheme

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

SQL-like 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
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

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

HTTP REST

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

depending on storage layer

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

depending on storage layer

none

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

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)

depending on storage layer

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

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

but no files for transaction logging

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

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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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