Multi Model DBMS Built for Extreme Performance

ArcadeDB is a Multi-Model DBMS created by Luca Garulli, the same founder of OrientDB,
after SAP's acquisition. Written from scratch with a brand-new engine made of Alien Technology, ArcadeDB is able to crunch millions
of records per second on common hardware with minimal resource usage. ArcadeDB reuses OrientDB's SQL engine (heavily modified) and
some utility classes. It's written in LLJ: Low Level Java - still Java21+ but only using low level APIs to leverage advanced
mechanical sympathy techniques and reduce Garbage Collector pressure. Highly optimized for extreme performance, it runs
from a Raspberry Pi to multiple servers on the cloud.

ArcadeDB is fully transactional DBMS with support for ACID transactions, structured and unstructured data, native graph engine (no
joins but links between records), full-text indexing, geospatial querying, and advanced security.

ArcadeDB supports the following models:

Graph Database (compatible with Neo4j Cypher, Apache Tinkerpop Gremlin and OrientDB SQL)
Document Database (compatible with the MongoDB driver + MongoDB queries and OrientDB
SQL)
Key/Value (compatible with the Redis driver)
Search Engine
Time Series
Vector Embedding

ArcadeDB understands multiple languages:

SQL (from OrientDB SQL)
Neo4j Cypher (Open Cypher)
Apache Gremlin (Apache Tinkerpop v3.7.x)
GraphQL Language
MongoDB Query Language

ArcadeDB can be used as:

Embedded from any language on top of the Java Virtual Machine
Embedded from Python via bindings: arcadedb-embedded-python
Remotely by using HTTP/JSON
Remotely by using a Postgres driver (ArcadeDB implements Postgres Wire protocol)
Remotely by using a Redis driver (only a subset of the operations are implemented)
Remotely by using a MongoDB driver (only a subset of the operations are implemented)

For more information, see the documentation.

Getting started in 5 minutes

Start ArcadeDB Server with Docker:

docker run --rm -p 2480:2480 -p 2424:2424 \
           -e JAVA_OPTS="-Darcadedb.server.rootPassword=playwithdata -Darcadedb.server.defaultDatabases=Imported[root]{import:https://github.com/ArcadeData/arcadedb-datasets/raw/main/orientdb/OpenBeer.gz}" \
           arcadedata/arcadedb:latest

Now open your browser on http://localhost:2480 and play with ArcadeDB Studio and the
imported OpenBeer database to find your favorite beer.

ArcadeDB Studio

ArcadeDB is cloud-ready with Docker and Kubernetes support.

You can also download the latest release, unpack it on your local hard drive and start the server with bin/server.sh or bin/server.bat for Windows.

Releases

There are three variants of (about monthly) releases:

full - this is the complete package of including all modules
minimal - this package excludes the gremlin, redisw, mongodbw, graphql modules
headless - this package excludes the gremlin, redisw, mongodbw, graphql, studio modules

The nightly builds of the repository head can be found here.

Java Versions

Starting from ArcadeDB 24.4.1 code is compatible with Java 21.

Java 21 packages are available on Maven central and docker images on Docker Hub.

We also support Java 17 on a separate branch java17 for those who cannot upgrade to Java 21 yet through GitHub packages.

To use Java 17 inside your project, add the repository to your pom.xml and reference dependencies as follows:

    <repositories>
        <repository>
            <name>github</name>
            <id>github</id>
            <url>https://maven.pkg.github.com/ArcadeData/arcadedb</url>
        </repository>
    </repositories>
    <dependencies>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>com.arcadedb</groupId>
          <artifactId>arcadedb-engine</artifactId>
          <version>25.5.1-java17</version>
      </dependency>
    </dependencies>

Docker images are available on ghcr.io too:

docker pull ghcr.io/arcadedata/arcadedb:25.5.1-java17

Community

Join our growing community around the world, for ideas, discussions and help regarding ArcadeDB.

Chat live with us on
Follow us on Twitter
or on Bluesky
Connect with us on LinkedIn
or on Facebook
Questions tagged #arcadedb on Stack Overflow
View our official Blog

Security

For security issues kindly email us at support@arcadedb.com instead of posting a public issue on GitHub.

License and Attribution

ArcadeDB is Free for any usage and licensed under the liberal Open Source Apache 2 license. If you need commercial
support, or you need to have an issue fixed ASAP, check our GitHub Sponsor page on both
Recurrent and One-Time tiers. All the sponsorship received will be distributed to the active contributors of this project.

For third-party attributions and copyright notices, see:

NOTICE - Required legal attributions
ATTRIBUTIONS.md - Detailed third-party acknowledgments
LICENSE - Full license text

Thanks To

for providing YourKit Profiler to our committers.

Contributing

We would love for you to get involved with ArcadeDB project.
If you wish to help, you can learn more about how you can contribute to this project in the contribution guide.

Have fun with data!

The ArcadeDB Team

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