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System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. Ignite vs. LevelDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. RocksDB

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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.

Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

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

Score	3.11
Rank	#96	Overall
	#15	Key-value stores
	#49	Relational DBMS

Score	2.25
Rank	#115	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

arangodb.com

ignite.apache.org

github.com/google/leveldb

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.arangodb.com

apacheignite.readme.io/docs

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Social network pages

Developer

ArangoDB Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Google

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2012

2015

2011

1992

2013

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

Apache Ignite 2.6

1.23, February 2021

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C++, Java, .Net

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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

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

yes

but not compliant to any SQL standard

APIs and other access methods

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

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

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

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

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

yes (replicated cache)

none

yes

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

but no files for transaction logging

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

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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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