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System Properties Comparison ArcadeDB vs. Spark SQL vs. SurrealDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

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

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

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	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#190	Overall
	#33	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

arcadedb.com

spark.apache.org/sql

surrealdb.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.arcadedb.com

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

surrealdb.com/docs

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Arcade Data

Apache Software Foundation

SurrealDB Ltd

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2021

2014

2022

1998

Current release

September 2021

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

v1.5.0, May 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Java

Java
Python
R
Scala

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes, utilizing Spark Core

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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 authentication and database rules

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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