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System Properties Comparison Dgraph vs. OrigoDB vs. Sphinx vs. TerminusDB vs. YDB

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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelGraph DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Search engineGraph DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.39
Rank#155  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#54  Document stores
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#269  Overall
#43  Document stores
#126  Relational DBMS
Websitedgraph.ioorigodb.comsphinxsearch.comterminusdb.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsorigodb.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#ydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.Robert Friberg et alSphinx Technologies Inc.DataChemist Ltd.Yandex
Initial release20162009 infounder the name LiveDB200120182019
Current release3.5.1, February 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC#C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono infocan be achieved using .NETnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language (WOQL)SQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
Proprietary protocolOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.NetC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyesno
Triggersnoyes infoDomain Eventsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyeshorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftSource-replica replicationnoneJournaling StreamsActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynodepending on modelnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoWrite ahead logyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesRole based authorizationnoRole-based access controlAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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