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System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. H2GIS vs. OushuDB

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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.

Spatial extension of H2

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	2.87
Rank	#88	Overall
	#15	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	0.04
Rank	#367	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#365	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

arangodb.com

www.h2gis.org

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

Technical documentation

docs.arangodb.com

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

ArangoDB Inc.

CNRS

Oushu

Initial release

2012

2013

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C
C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

yes

based on H2

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

Hadoop integration

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

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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DB-Engines blog posts

The Weight of Relational Databases: Time for Multi-Model?
29 August 2017, Luca Olivari (guest author)

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Recent citations in the news

ArangoDB raises $10 million for NoSQL database management
14 March 2019, VentureBeat

ArangoDB Announces Release of ArangoDB 3.11 for Search, Graph and Analytics
30 May 2023, insideHPC

Graph, machine learning, hype, and beyond: ArangoDB open source multi-model database releases version 3.7
27 August 2020, ZDNet

Here's the pitch deck a German software startup used to raise $10 million to move to San Francisco and take on Oracle
23 June 2019, Business Insider

ArangoDB 3.5 update improves multi-model database platform
22 August 2019, TechTarget

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