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System Properties Comparison ArangoDB vs. RDF4J vs. Teradata

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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.

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

A hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engine

RDF store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	5.92
Rank	#73	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#4	Graph DBMS
	#11	Key-value stores
	#10	Search engines

Score	0.77
Rank	#203	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Score	69.07
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Website

www.arangodb.com

rdf4j.org

www.teradata.com

Technical documentation

www.arangodb.com/docs/stable

rdf4j.org/documentation

docs.teradata.com

Social network pages

Developer

ArangoDB Inc.

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Teradata

Initial release

2012

2004

1984

Current release

3.9.2, June 2022

Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial license (Enterprise) available

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

automatically recognizes schema within a collection

yes

RDF Schemas

yes

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

Join-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2016 + extensions

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
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

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

Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

yes

UDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

since version 2.0

none

Sharding

Hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with configurable replication factor

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

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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News

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4 August 2022

July 2022: What’s the Latest with ArangoDB?
21 July 2022

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7 July 2022

May 2022: What’s the Latest with ArangoDB?
27 May 2022

April 2022: What’s the Latest with ArangoDB?
29 April 2022

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