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System Properties Comparison OrientDB vs. TerminusDB vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

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

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	3.19
Rank	#93	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#7	Graph DBMS
	#14	Key-value stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

orientdb.org

terminusdb.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

DataChemist Ltd.

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2010

2018

2001

Current release

3.2.29, March 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

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 JDK (>= JDK 6)

Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

yes

schema-free

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language, no joins

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript
Python

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, Javascript

yes

Triggers

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Journaling Streams

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

Role-based access control

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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