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System Properties Comparison GraphDB vs. Kdb vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. MonetDB vs. OrientDB

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NameGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnterprise-ready RDF and graph database with efficient reasoning, cluster and external index synchronization support. It supports also SQL JDBC access to Knowledge Graph and GraphQL over SPARQL.High performance Time Series DBMSA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache KylinA relational database management system that stores data in columnsMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.25
Rank#91  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score7.71
Rank#49  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#266  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Websitewww.ontotext.comkx.comkyligence.io/­kyligence-enterprisewww.monetdb.orgorientdb.org
Technical documentationgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationcode.kx.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperOntotextKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcKyligence, Inc.MonetDB BVOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release20002000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003201620042010
Current release10.4, October 20233.6, May 2018Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaqJavaCJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesyesyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLstored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCSQL-like query language (q)ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)yes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsGeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureswell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilityuser defined functionsyes, in SQL, C, RJava, Javascript
Triggersnoyes infowith viewsyesHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningSharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingyesnono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoConstraint checkingyesyesyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlDefault Basic authentication through RDF4J client, or via Java when run with cURL, default token-based in the Workbench or via Rest API, optional access through OpenID or Kerberos single sign-on.rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable
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GraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMKdbKyligence EnterpriseMonetDBOrientDB
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Competitive advantagesGraphDB allows you to link text and data in big knowledge graphs. It’s easy to experiment...
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provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGraphDB Free is a non-commercial version and is free to use. GraphDB Enterprise edition...
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