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System Properties Comparison OrigoDB vs. RDFox vs. Sphinx vs. TerminusDB vs. YDB

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NameOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Search engineGraph DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#380  Overall
#50  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websiteorigodb.comwww.oxfordsemantic.techsphinxsearch.comterminusdb.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationorigodb.com/­docsdocs.oxfordsemantic.techsphinxsearch.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#ydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperRobert Friberg et alOxford Semantic TechnologiesSphinx Technologies Inc.DataChemist Ltd.Yandex
Initial release2009 infounder the name LiveDB2017200120182019
Current release6.0, Septermber 20223.5.1, February 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC#C++C++Prolog, Rust
Server operating systemsLinux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF schemasyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesnoyesyes
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.no infocan be achieved using .NETnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)SQL-like query language (WOQL)SQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Proprietary protocolOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languages.NetC
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyesno
Triggersyes infoDomain Eventsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationreplication via a shared file systemnoneJournaling StreamsActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritydepending on modelnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based authorizationRoles, resources, and access typesnoRole-based access controlAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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