Performance comparison between multi-model, key-value and documental NoSQL database management systems

Abstract: This study conducted an experiment that compares the multi-model NoSQL DBMS ArangoDB with other NoSQL DBMS, in terms of the average response time of queries. The DBMS compared in this experiment are the following: Redis, MongoDB, Couchbase, and OrientDB. The hypothesis that is answered in this study is the following: “There is a significant difference between ArangoDB, OrientDB, Couchbase, Redis, MongoDB in terms of the average response time of queries”. This is examined by comparing the average response time of 1 000, 100 000, and 1 000 000 queries between these database systems. The results show that ArangoDB performs worse compared to the other DBMS. Examples of future work include using additional DBMS in the same experiment and replacing ArangoDB with another multi-model DBMS to decide whether such a DBMS, in general, performs worse than single-model DBMS.