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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-based data warehousing service

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	3.30
Rank	#82	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#5	Graph DBMS
	#10	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	1.26
Rank	#162	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

arangodb.com

www.ibm.com/products/db2/warehouse

opentsdb.net

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.arangodb.com

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Social network pages

Developer

ArangoDB Inc.

IBM

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2012

2014

2011

2000

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

commercial

Open Source

LGPL

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, double, boolean, list, hash

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

HTTP API
Telnet API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

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

Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

PL/SQL, SQL PL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

Sharding

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be done with stored procedures in JavaScript

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

based on HBase

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

via file-system locks

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

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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