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DBMS > OrientDB vs. Riak KV vs. SpaceTime vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison OrientDB vs. Riak KV vs. SpaceTime vs. TerminusDB

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NameOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Distributed, fault tolerant key-value storeSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.02
Rank#88  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#12  Key-value stores
Score3.84
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websiteorientdb.orgwww.mireo.com/­spacetimeterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesMireoDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2010200920202018
Current release3.2.29, March 20243.2.0, December 202211.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialOpen 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 languageJavaErlangC++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesrestrictedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language, no joinsnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsTinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP APIOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Python
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, JavascriptErlangnoyes
TriggersHooksyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Fixed-grid hypercubesGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationselectable replication factorReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infocould be achieved with distributed queriesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationship in graphsno infolinks between data sets can be storednoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableyes, using Riak SecurityyesRole-based access control

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