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System Properties Comparison OrientDB vs. Sequoiadb vs. Splice Machine vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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NameOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Document store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Trend Chart
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websiteorientdb.orgwww.sequoiadb.comsplicemachine.comterminusdb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexsplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSequoiadb Ltd.Splice MachineDataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20102013201420182011
Current release3.2.29, March 20243.1, March 202111.0.0, January 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaProlog, RustC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language, no joinsSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsTinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
proprietary protocol using JSONJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, JavascriptJavaScriptyes infoJavayesno
TriggersHooksnoyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar PartitioningGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnoYes, via Full Spark Integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationship in graphsnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDDocument is locked during a transactionACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurablesimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication

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