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System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. H2GIS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TinkerGraph vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

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

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.08
Rank	#368	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.75
Rank	#104	Overall
	#19	Document stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Website

arcadedb.com

www.h2gis.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

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

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Arcade Data

CNRS

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2021

2013

2010

2009

1987

Current release

September 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

TinkerPop 3

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Java

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Groovy
Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication

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

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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

based on H2

Access rights for users can be defined per database

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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