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System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. Hive vs. InterSystems Caché vs. OpenQM

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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.

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

A multi-model DBMS and application server

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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

Score	5.92
Rank	#73	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#4	Graph DBMS
	#11	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	78.66
Rank	#17	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	3.00
Rank	#105	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#290	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.arangodb.com

hive.apache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/cache

www.openqm.com

Technical documentation

www.arangodb.com/docs/stable

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

docs.intersystems.com

www.openqm.com/support/documentation

Social network pages

Developer

ArangoDB Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

InterSystems

Martin Phillips

Initial release

2012

1997

1993

Current release

3.9.2, June 2022

3.1.2, August 2019

2018.1.4, May 2020

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

yes

depending on used data model

yes

with some exceptions

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL 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

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Java

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

Sharding

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

selectable replication factor

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

yes

query execution via MapReduce

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)

Eventual Consistency

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

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, groups and roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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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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