DBMS > ArangoDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Raima Database Manager vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Raima Database Manager vs. SAP HANA

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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.

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Document store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

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

Score	7.85
Rank	#51	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#259	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

arangodb.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

raima.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.arangodb.com

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

docs.raima.com

help.sap.com/hana

Social network pages

Developer

ArangoDB Inc.

Google

Percona

Raima Inc.

SAP

Initial release

2012

2017

2015

1984

2010

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

15, June 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

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.

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

proprietary protocol using JSON

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

JavaScript

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes, with Cloud Functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

Using Cloud Dataflow

yes

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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