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System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. Interbase vs. KeyDB vs. Realm vs. TempoIQ

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NameArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Relational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.26
Rank#88  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#229  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Websitearangodb.comwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasegithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
realm.iotempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationdocs.arangodb.comdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasedocs.keydb.devrealm.io/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebookInstagram
DeveloperArangoDB Inc.EmbarcaderoEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019TempoIQ
Initial release20121984201920142012
Current release3.11.5, November 2023InterBase 2020, December 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSD-3Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC++CC++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infoautomatically recognizes schema within a collectionyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, double, boolean, list, hashyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.no infoexport as XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonono
APIs and other access methodsAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageLuano inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoChange Listenersyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infosince version 2.0noneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with configurable replication factorInterbase Change ViewsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoconfigurable per collection or per write
Immediate Consistency
OneShard (highly available, fault-tolerant deployment mode with ACID semantics)
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationships in graphsyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access control and ACLyessimple authentication-based access control
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ArangoDBInterbaseKeyDBRealmTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB
Specific characteristicsGraph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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Competitive advantagesConsolidation: As a native multi-model database, can be used as a full blown document...
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Typical application scenariosNative multi-model in ArangoDB is being used for a broad range of projects across...
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Key customersCisco, Barclays, Refinitive, Siemens Mentor, Kabbage, Liaison, Douglas, MakeMyTrip,...
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Market metricsArangoDB is the leading native multi-model database with over 11,000 stargazers on...
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Licensing and pricing modelsVery permissive Apache 2 License for Community Edition & commercial licenses are...
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