DBMS > ArcadeDB vs. Couchbase vs. EXASOL vs. Faircom EDGE vs. GraphDB

System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. Couchbase vs. EXASOL vs. Faircom EDGE vs. GraphDB

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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 distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

Enterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Document store

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.02
Rank	#374	Overall
	#52	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#56	Key-value stores
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.74
Rank	#33	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	1.66
Rank	#138	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#370	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores
	#157	Relational DBMS

Score	2.76
Rank	#99	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS
	#4	RDF stores

Website

arcadedb.com

www.couchbase.com

www.exasol.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

www.ontotext.com

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

docs.couchbase.com

www.exasol.com/resources

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

graphdb.ontotext.com/documentation

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Developer

Arcade Data

Couchbase, Inc.

Exasol

FairCom Corporation

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Initial release

2021

2011

2000

1979

2000

Current release

September 2021

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

V3, October 2020

10.4, October 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Some plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourced

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

All OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

yes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

yes

ANSI SQL queries

stored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBC

APIs and other access methods

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

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Java
Lua
Python
R

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

user defined functions

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

well-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibility

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

when using SQL

yes

Constraint checking

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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

Ephemeral buckets

yes

User concepts

Access control

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Default Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.

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