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System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. LeanXcale vs. OpenQM vs. SingleStore vs. SurrealDB

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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 highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

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

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.02
Rank	#366	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#53	Key-value stores
	#36	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

arcadedb.com

www.leanxcale.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

www.singlestore.com

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

docs.singlestore.com

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Arcade Data

LeanXcale

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

SingleStore Inc.

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

2021

2015

1993

2013

2022

Current release

September 2021

3.4-12

8.5, January 2024

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

with some exceptions

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

Java

C
Java
Scala

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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Licensing and pricing models

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