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DBMS > OrientDB vs. Stardog vs. Teradata Aster vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison OrientDB vs. Stardog vs. Teradata Aster vs. TerminusDB

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NameOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument 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
Score1.93
Rank#121  Overall
#10  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websiteorientdb.orgwww.stardog.comterminusdb.com
Technical documentationwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmldocs.stardog.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPStardog-UnionTeradataDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2010201020052018
Current release3.2.29, March 20247.3.0, May 202011.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentscommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possibleyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language, no joinsYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL ServeryesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsTinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
OWL
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
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava, Javascriptuser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in JavaR packagesyes
TriggersHooksyes infovia event handlersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication in HA-Clusteryes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.Journaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes inforelationship in graphsyes inforelationships in graphsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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