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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. mSQL vs. OrientDB vs. TerminusDB

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NameGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation enginemSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Graph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.61
Rank#240  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#35  Key-value stores
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.graphengine.iohughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlorientdb.orgterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperMicrosoftHughes TechnologiesOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2010199420102018
Current release4.4, October 20213.2.29, March 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation language.NET and CCJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systems.NETAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
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")yes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language, no joinsSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoJava, Javascriptyes
TriggersnonoHooksyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationship in graphsyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyes
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 infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableRole-based access control

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