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System Properties Comparison GraphDB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

Enterprise-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.

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.15
Rank	#327	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

www.ontotext.com

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

graphdb.ontotext.com/documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Ontotext

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2000

2018

Current release

10.4, October 2023

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Some plugins of GraphDB Workbench are open sourced

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java VM
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support; RDF shapes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes, supports real-time synchronization and indexing in SOLR/Elastic search/Lucene and GeoSPARQL geometry data indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

stored SPARQL accessed as SQL using Apache Calcite through JDBC/ODBC

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

GeoSPARQL
GraphQL
GraphQL Federation
Java API
JDBC
RDF4J API
RDFS
RIO
Sail API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL 1.1

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

well-defined plugin interfaces; JavaScript server-side extensibility

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency, Eventual consistency (configurable in cluster mode per master or individual client request)

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Constraint checking

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

User concepts

Access control

Default 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.

Role-based access control

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Recent citations in the news

Semantic Web Company and Ontotext merge to form Graphwise
23 October 2024, Blocks and Files

Semantic Knowledge Graphing Market to Reach USD 5.07 Billion by 2032, Driven by AI Adoption, Contextual Data Analytics, and Industry-Wide Digital Transformation | SNS Insider
17 April 2025, GlobeNewswire

Semantic Web Company and Ontotext Merge to Create Knowledge Graph and AI Powerhouse Graphwise
23 October 2024, PR Newswire

Ontotext Platform 3.0 for Enterprise Knowledge Graphs Released
18 December 2019, KDnuggets

A Content Management Platform and a Graph Database Come Together in the New Company: Graphwise
28 October 2024, The Recursive

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How TerminusDB is commercializing its open source graph database
16 March 2021, VentureBeat

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15 March 2021, Tech.eu

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