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System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. Geode vs. IRONdb vs. Kinetica vs. SpaceTime

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NameArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Key-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score3.26
Rank#88  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitearangodb.comgeode.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.kinetica.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationdocs.arangodb.comgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.kinetica.com
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebookInstagram
DeveloperArangoDB Inc.Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Circonus LLC.KineticaMireo
Initial release20122002201720122020
Current release3.11.5, November 20231.1, February 2017V0.10.20, January 20187.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC and C++C, C++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptuser defined functionsyes, in Luauser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infosince version 2.0ShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeShardingFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with configurable replication factorMulti-source replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptnononono
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)
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationships in graphsnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodenonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights per client and object definablenoAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes
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ArangoDBGeodeIRONdbKineticaSpaceTime
Specific characteristicsGraph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Competitive advantagesConsolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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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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Key customersCisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metricsArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing modelsVery permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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