DBMS > ArangoDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Prometheus

System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. GigaSpaces vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Prometheus

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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.

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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Score	3.26
Rank	#88	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	58.10
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Website

arangodb.com

www.gigaspaces.com

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.hawkular.org

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

docs.arangodb.com

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

prometheus.io/docs

Social network pages

Developer

ArangoDB Inc.

Gigaspaces Technologies

Google

Community supported by Red Hat

Initial release

2012

2000

2010

2014

2015

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

15.5, September 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

yes

Numeric data only

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

AQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

Sharding

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

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

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Role-based access control

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

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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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