DBMS > ArangoDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Realm vs. SurrealDB vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. OpenSearch vs. Realm vs. SurrealDB vs. TempoIQ

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Native multi-model DBMS for graph, document, key/value and search. All in one engine and accessible with one query language.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

Search engine

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	7.41
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

arangodb.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

realm.io

surrealdb.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.arangodb.com

opensearch.org/docs/latest

realm.io/docs

surrealdb.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

ArangoDB Inc.

Amazon Web Services

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

SurrealDB Ltd

TempoIQ

Initial release

2012

2021

2014

2022

2012

Current release

3.11.5, November 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Rust

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Change Listeners

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

yes

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)

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

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

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

yes

yes, based on authentication and database rules

simple authentication-based access control

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Graph and Beyond. With more than 11,000 stargazers on GitHub, ArangoDB is the leading...
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OpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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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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Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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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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The OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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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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The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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