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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. OrientDB vs. TerminusDB vs. Ultipa

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Name

Description

A distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stack

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

High performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.14
Rank	#171	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#88	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#12	Key-value stores

Score	0.19
Rank	#311	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#338	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

kylin.apache.org/docs

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

www.ultipa.com/document

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay Inc

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

DataChemist Ltd.

Ultipa

Initial release

2015

2010

2018

2019

Current release

3.1.0, July 2020

3.2.29, March 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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

ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript
Python

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

yes

Triggers

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

could be achieved with distributed queries

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Role-based access control

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