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System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. CouchDB vs. SurrealDB vs. Tkrzw

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Name

Description

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.

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

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.10
Rank	#358	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#52	Key-value stores
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.30
Rank	#47	Overall
	#7	Document stores

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

Score	0.07
Rank	#372	Overall
	#57	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

docs.couchdb.org/en/stable

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Arcade Data

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developer

SurrealDB Ltd

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2021

2005

2022

2020

Current release

September 2021

3.3.3, December 2023

v1.5.0, May 2024

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java

C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

improved architecture with release 2.0

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

strategy: optimistic locking

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

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per database

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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