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System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. Kinetica vs. LokiJS vs. Microsoft Access vs. Newts

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NameArangoDB  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Access  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionNative multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSMicrosoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries. infoThe Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine
Relational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score3.26
Rank#88  Overall
#15  Document stores
#5  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
#10  Search engines
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score101.16
Rank#11  Overall
#8  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitearangodb.comwww.kinetica.comgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.microsoft.com/­en-us/­microsoft-365/­accessopennms.github.io/­newts
Technical documentationdocs.arangodb.comdocs.kinetica.comtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdeveloper.microsoft.com/­en-us/­accessgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeFacebookInstagram
DeveloperArangoDB Inc.KineticaMicrosoftOpenNMS Group
Initial release20122012201419922014
Current release3.11.5, November 20237.1, August 20211902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) availablecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infoBundled with Microsoft OfficeOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C, C++JavaScriptC++Java
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows infoNot a real database server, but making use of DLLsLinux
OS X
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, hashyesnoyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes infobut not compliant to any SQL standardno
APIs and other access methodsAQL
Foxx Framework
Graph API (Gremlin)
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Java & SpringData
JSON style queries
VelocyPack/VelocyStream
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Rust
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyesyes infosince Access 2010 using the ACE-engineno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infosince version 2.0ShardingnonenoneSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with configurable replication factorSource-replica replicationnonenoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infocan be done with stored procedures in JavaScriptnoyesnono
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 Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationships in graphsyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID infobut no files for transaction loggingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes infobut no files for transaction loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnono infoa simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003no
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ArangoDBKineticaLokiJSMicrosoft AccessNewts
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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