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System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. GeoSpock vs. MariaDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. Tkrzw

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

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

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial 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	91.04
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

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

Website

arcadedb.com

geospock.com

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

dbmx.net/tkrzw

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

Developer

Arcade Data

GeoSpock

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

Mikio Hirabayashi

Initial release

2021

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2009

2020

Current release

September 2021

2.0, September 2019

11.3.2, February 2024

0.9.3, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Java

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Groovy
Java

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Automatic sharding

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

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

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

optional

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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