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System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. EJDB vs. Graph Engine vs. Heroic vs. Prometheus

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Document store

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	0.46
Rank	#265	Overall
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.69
Rank	#50	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Website

arcadedb.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.graphengine.io

github.com/spotify/heroic

prometheus.io

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

spotify.github.io/heroic

prometheus.io/docs

Developer

Arcade Data

Softmotions

Microsoft

Spotify

Initial release

2021

2012

2010

2014

2015

Current release

September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 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

.NET and C

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

.NET

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

APIs and other access methods

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

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP API

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

by Federation

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

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

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