DBMS > ArangoDB vs. dBASE vs. GridGain vs. Snowflake vs. Teradata

System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. dBASE vs. GridGain vs. Snowflake vs. Teradata

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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.

dBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

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

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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

Score	9.70
Rank	#44	Overall
	#28	Relational DBMS

Score	1.55
Rank	#150	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	44.87
Rank	#22	Overall
	#15	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.arangodb.com

www.dbase.com/support/knowledgebase

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.teradata.com

Social network pages

Developer

ArangoDB Inc.

Asthon Tate

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Teradata

Initial release

2012

1979

2007

2014

1984

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

dBASE 2019, 2019

GridGain 8.5.1

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++, .Net

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

DOS

dBase Classic
Windows

dBase Pro

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

yes

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

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

none

The IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

dBase proprietary IDE

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

The IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

user defined functions

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

none

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

none

yes (replicated cache)

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMS

ACID

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

Access rights for users and roles

Security Hooks for custom implementations

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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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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