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DBMS > Graph Engine vs. Infobright vs. OrientDB vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Infobright vs. OrientDB vs. Teradata Aster

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Websitewww.graphengine.ioignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdborientdb.org
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperMicrosoftIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPTeradata
Initial release2010200520102005
Current release3.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation language.NET and CCJava
Server operating systems.NETLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language, no joinsyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava, JavascriptR packages
TriggersnonoHooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationship in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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