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System Properties Comparison GraphDB vs. STSdb vs. TerarkDB vs. Vertica vs. YugabyteDB

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NameGraphDB infoformer name: OWLIM  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  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.Key-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMS infoColumn orientedRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document store
Wide column store
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Score3.25
Rank#91  Overall
#7  Graph DBMS
#4  RDF stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Score10.06
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.ontotext.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbwww.vertica.comwww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationgraphdb.ontotext.com/­documentationbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcvertica.com/­documentationdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterYouTubeGitHubMedium
DeveloperOntotextSTS Soft SCByteDance, originally TerarkOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett PackardYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20002011201620052017
Current release10.4, October 20234.0.8, September 201512.0.3, January 20232.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoSome plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourcedOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial inforestricted open source version availablecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containersno
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Implementation languageJavaC#C++C++C and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows
WindowsLinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapesyesschema-freeYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.depending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)noyesyes
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 indexesyes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexesnonoNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.yes
SQL infoSupport of SQLstored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBCnonoFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.yes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsGeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1
.NET Client APIC++ API
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C#
Java
C++
Java
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureswell-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibilitynonoyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differencesyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnononoyes, called Custom Alertsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenonehorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioningHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationnonenoneMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infoBi-directional Spark integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)Immediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoConstraint checkingnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnono
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.nonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hashyes
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GraphDB infoformer name: OWLIMSTSdbTerarkDBVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™YugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsOntotext GraphDB is a semantic database engine that allows organizations to build...
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Deploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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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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Fast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosMetadata enrichment and management, linked data publishing, semantic inferencing...
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Communication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Key customers​ GraphDB provides a platform for building next-generation AI and Knowledge Graph...
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Abiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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Market metricsGraphDB is the most utilized semantic triplestore for mission-critical enterprise...
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2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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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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Cost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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