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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

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	5.55
Rank	#73	Overall
	#12	Document stores
	#4	Graph DBMS
	#11	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	81.61
Rank	#17	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.37
Rank	#260	Overall
	#121	Relational DBMS

Website

www.arangodb.com

hive.apache.org

www.kingbase.com.cn

Technical documentation

www.arangodb.com/docs/stable

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

bbs.kingbase.com.cn/chess_wenku-index.html

Social network pages

Developer

ArangoDB Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Initial release

2012

1999

Current release

3.9.1, April 2022

3.1.2, August 2019

V8.0, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

C and Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

Standard with numerous extensions

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

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

Supported programming languages

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

C++
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

selectable replication factor

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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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An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle. It has the following...
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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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Complete database management platform with Integrated Development Environment Tool,...
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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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New applications for transactional and mixed workloads that need to integrate with...
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Key customers

Cisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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The main customers are: China National Petroleum Corporation China Petrochemical...
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Market metrics

ArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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At present, the main market is in China, but expansion to the international market...
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Licensing and pricing models

Very permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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Business license. Various sales modes: for example, sales by set, sales by CPU quantity,...
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News

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